What is the best translation of Anna Karenina?

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For most readers, the Rosamund Bartlett translation (2014) of Anna Karenina is the best place to start: Rosamund Bartlett's 2014 Oxford translation is the one I'd hand most readers — idiomatic, natural English that still stays faithful to Tolstoy. Critics note that her dialogue sounds like real speech, that 'Anna sounds like Anna.' Readable and accurate at once. This is where I'd start. For most debated, consider Pevear & Volokhonsky (2000). For closest to the style, consider Marian Schwartz (2014). For the classic standard, consider Louise & Aylmer Maude (1918). For the free classic, consider Constance Garnett (1901).

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