29. March 2015

List of 28 - Suggested Versions

This is based on my earlier blog post. I tend to like newer and more academic versions.

No	Author / Work	Suggested Version	Comments on Suggested Version
1	Rg Veda	The Rigveda	Jamison/Brereton translation, 2014
2	Samyutta Nikaya	The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya	Bikkhu Bodhi translation, 2000
3	Mahabharata	The Mahabharata: Complete and Unabridged	Bibek Debroy translation, Vol 10 came out Dec 2014
4	Kalidasa	Kalidasa: The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems	Chandra Rajan translation, 1989, includes translation of Bengali recension of Meghadutam (poem) and Abhijnanasakuntalam (drama), plus an early work of Kalidasa
5	Shankara	Brahma Sutra Bhasya of Shankaracharya	One of the "latest" translation, by Gambhirananda, in 1965. Thibaut version is free online, but no accessible recent reprints
6	Classic of Odes	詩經注析 (Chinese version)	程俊英、蔣見元，1991，繁體
7	Sima Qian	點校本二十四史修訂本：史記 (Chinese version)	趙生群等、2013、繁體
8	Wang Bi	王弼集校釋 (Chinese version)	樓宇烈、1980
9	Murasaki Shikibu	源氏物语 (Chinese version)	林文月、1978、此是2011年的简体版
10	Su Shi	蘇軾選集 (Chinese version)	王水照、1984、選東坡詩、詞、文共300多篇
11	Zhu Xi	四書章句集注 (Chinese version)	新編諸子集成、1983
12	Homer	Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid box set	Robert Fagles, 1990 (Iliad), 1996 (Odyssey)
13	Herodotus	Herodotus: The History	David Grene, 1987
14	Plato	Plato: Complete Works	John Cooper, 1997
15	Virgil	Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid box set	Robert Fagles, 2006 (Aeneid)
16	Bible	The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha: New Revised Standard Version (Fully Revised Fourth Edition)	Oxford NRSV, 2010
17	Augustine	The Trinity	Edmund Hill, 1991
18	Dante	The Inferno Purgatorio Paradiso	Robert and Jean Hollander (2000, 2003, 2007)
19	Qur'an	The Qur'an	Tarif Khalidi, 2008
20	al-Tabari	The History of al-Tabari	Franz Rosenthal, 2007
21	Ferdowsi	The Shanameh: The Persian Book of Kings	Dick Davis, 2004
22	al-Ghazali	Alchemy of Happiness	Jay Crook, 2007 - there is no complete translation from Arabic of Revival of Religious Science (there is a complete translation from Urdu though), this is complete translation of Ghazali's own medium-sized version written in Persian
23	Cervantes	Don Quixote	Edith Grossman, 2003
24	Shakespeare	William Shakespeare: Complete Works	RSC Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, 2007, based on First Folio
25	Voltaire	风俗论上册、中册、下册 (Chinese version)	No new English translation. 梁守锵，1994
26	Kant	Critique of Pure Reason	Cambridge edition, Paul Guyer and Allen Wood, 1998. Many don't like this as much as the Norman Kemp Smith version
27	Marx	Karl Marx: Selected Writings, 2nd Edition	David McLellan, 2000 (1st edition 1977)
28	Tolstoy	War and Peace	Anthony Briggs, 2005

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