This is terrible news about Garnett I always found her very readable and never suspected she was cheating me Hapgood s Epic Songs of Russia used to be a great favourite of mine but it was clear even to me that she must be making very free with the originals Thanks very much for the recommended names I ve read Crime and Punishment in both Magarshack s and McDuff s translations and hugely enjoyed both but what I could find of Magarshack s other work read a little creaky to me We re forgetting the greatest of all Sir Walter s heirs Robert Louis Stevenson I love every word Wuthering Heights eh I could easily have named that as my favourite as well I now have to withdraw my patronizing remarks about your ability to read Lallans if you can tackle Joseph s Yorkshire dialect then nothing in the Waverley novels is going to give you much trouble I find it a bit knotty myself even though I m a northerner and spent 20 years only a few miles from Haworth I used to know the Bronte moors like the back of my hand Ah o sont les neiges d antan as they say in Yorkshire