Parallel Editions: Bilingual Classics on Kindle
Paragraph-by-paragraph bilingual editions of public-domain literature, in either direction. For English speakers learning German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, or Brazilian Portuguese, and for people learning English. Written for CEFR B2 to C1. Available now in the Kindle store.
Available now
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925). BR-EN, DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, EN-JA, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, KO-EN, NO-EN, SV-EN, ZH-EN.
- A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens (1843). DE-EN, EN-ES, EN-JA, ES-EN, FI-EN, KO-EN.
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, EN-JA, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, KO-EN, NO-EN, SV-EN, ZH-EN.
- Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë (1847). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, EN-JA, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, KO-EN, NO-EN, SV-EN, ZH-EN.
- Think and Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill (1937). DE-EN, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN.
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (1865). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, EN-JA, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, KO-EN, NO-EN, SV-EN.
- Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll (1871). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, EN-JA, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, KO-EN, ZH-EN.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum (1900). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, NO-EN, SV-EN.
- Aesop's Fables, Aesop (1867). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, KO-EN, SV-EN.
- Andersen's Fairy Tales, Hans Christian Andersen (1872). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, KO-EN, NO-EN, SV-EN.
- The Odyssey, Homer (1900). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN.
- The Call of the Wild, Jack London (1903). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, KO-EN, NO-EN, SV-EN.
- White Fang, Jack London (1906). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, NO-EN, SV-EN.
Coming soon
- The Hunting of the Snark, Lewis Carroll (1876).
- Alice's Adventures Under Ground, Lewis Carroll (1864).
- The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Oscar Wilde (1888).
- Peter Rabbit Books, Beatrix Potter (1902).
- Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling (1902).
- The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (1894).
- The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting (1920).
- Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter (1913).
- Daddy-Long-Legs, Jean Webster (1912).
- The Time Machine, H. G. Wells (1895).
- The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson (1886).
- A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens (1859).
- Peter and Wendy, J. M. Barrie (1911).
- Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne (1926).
- Grimm's Fairy Tales, Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm (1812).
- The Secret of Chimneys, Agatha Christie (1925).
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie (1926).
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville (1851).
- Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen (1813).
- Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare (1597).
- A Room with a View, E. M. Forster (1908).
- Frankenstein, Mary Shelley (1818).
- The Blue Castle, L. M. Montgomery (1926).
- Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë (1847).
- Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1868).
- Dracula, Bram Stoker (1897).
- Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen (1811).
- The Green Mummy, Fergus Hume (1894).
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie (1920).
About the edition codes: XX-EN means the language you are learning is XX (the prominent one), with English as the helper. EN-XX is the mirror, English prominent and XX as the helper, for people learning English.
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