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   On 01/01/2020 6:50 a.m., Alexander Koryagin : August Abolins wrote:   
      
    AA>> I'm impressed with your likes. Ivanhoe is quite the epic and   
    AA>> filled with very "formal" yet an ancient way of speaking and   
    AA>> writing.   
      
    AK> Well, my first meeting with th original ended similarly. But   
    AK> after years I returned to this book. There is energy and life   
    AK> there.   
      
   Hello Alexander!   
      
   I find many of the classics between 1850 to 1950 are worth discovery or   
   rediscovery.   
      
   Wuthering Heights (Bronte) has great characters, witty conversations, and fun   
   turns of phrase.   
      
      
    AK> Such sentences got me down when I tried to read the second book   
    AK> about Robinson Crusoe adventures. And the style was very   
    AK> tedious, too.   
      
   Second book = The Farther Adventures of RC?  Apparently, the stories of RC   
   have been suggested to be based on real events.   
      
   I have to admit, that I don't think I ever finished reading the *first* story   
   of RC.  I am willing to give old books another chance.   
      
      
    AK> As for Ivanhoe, I've got a nice Russian translation. I can't   
    AK> tell you the name of that witty translator -- the book was read   
    AK> so many times by me and till me, so it had lost the cover and   
    AK> first pages. I'd suggest to you to start with Russian   
    AK> translations.   
      
   There is absolutely no chance that I will be able to read Russian. ;)   
      
   Speaking of Russian and translations, I recently learned about the sci-fi   
   books by the Strugatsky brothers.   I have Doomed City on my list.   
      
   About the book: "The Doomed City was so politically risky that the Strugatsky   
   brothers kept its existence a complete secret even from their closest friends   
   for sixteen years after its completion in 1972. It was only published in   
   Russia during perestroika in the late 1980s, the last of their works to see   
   publication. It was translated into a host of European languages, and now   
   appears in English in a major new effort by acclaimed translator Andrew   
   Bromfield."   
      
   I have enjoyed the english translations of some books by Dostoevsky and   
   Tolstoy.  They are great epics of life and consequences.   
      
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