I've been reading the delightful new translation of The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas over the past couple of weeks. The translation was made by Richard Pevear in 2006, who writes in his introduction that the earlier translations can be seen as "textbook examples of bad translation practices" that "give their readers an extremely distorted notion of Dumas' writing". As an example, the earlier English translations left out huge chunks of text where the translators thought that the original text was too raunchy. Things like sexual innuendo were the first victims of these translators.
