Quiet Flows the Dawn - Sholokov, Mikhail (no translator listed)
A classic in disreputable motley The first thing I thought was, "This paperback is HUGE." It's the size of a Bible. My War and Peace isn't nearly this big. Then... that cover! I don't usually care about the cover, but I don't want to be seen reading this book--it looks like it was designed as a 25c birthday card originally, with a naked boy on a horse and a clipart star in the middle. Then, the pages! You can see the opposite-facing text through each page. Printer paper? Man. As eastern Europeans say, "it's a pity" because the text is a masterpiece, and I chose this edition based on a lot of research about the translation, and which one has the whole text. I'm a little surprised... a work like this, and no one is stepping up to make an authoritative edition?... Get Pevear and Volkhonsky to translate this one!