Parallel Editions: Bilingual Classics on Kindle

Paragraph-by-paragraph bilingual editions of public-domain literature, in either direction. For English speakers learning Spanish, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Finnish, Swedish, Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, or Norwegian, and for people learning English. Written for CEFR B2 to C1. Available now in the Kindle store. Every title has its own page with buy links.

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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, JA-EN, NO-EN, SV-EN.
The Holy Bible, King James Version & classic translations (1611). DE-EN, EN-DE, EN-ES, EN-FR, EN-PT, ES-EN, FR-EN, PT-EN.
Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling (1902). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, KO-EN, SV-EN, ZH-EN.
The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling (1894). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, KO-EN, SV-EN, ZH-EN.
The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Hugh Lofting (1920). BR-EN, DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN, KO-EN, SV-EN, ZH-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.
The Secret of Chimneys, Agatha Christie (1925). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, SV-EN.
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Agatha Christie (1926). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, SV-EN.
The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie (1920). DE-EN, EN-BR, EN-ES, ES-EN, FI-EN, FR-EN, IT-EN, JA-EN.

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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).
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).
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).
Poirot Investigates, Agatha Christie (1924).
The Secret Adversary, Agatha Christie (1922).
The Murder on the Links, Agatha Christie (1923).
The Man in the Brown Suit, Agatha Christie (1924).
The Big Four, Agatha Christie (1927).
The Seven Dials Mystery, Agatha Christie (1929).
The Mystery of the Blue Train, Agatha Christie (1928).
A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway (1929).
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Sir Thomas Malory (1485).
A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle (1887).
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle (1902).
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain (1876).
Love and Freindship, Jane Austen (1922).
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (1891).
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Allan Poe (1849).
The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911).
Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery (1908).
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe (1719).
Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson (1883).
Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift (1726).
The War of the Worlds, H. G. Wells (1898).
Black Beauty, Anna Sewell (1877).
The Invisible Man, H. G. Wells (1897).
The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame (1908).
The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain (1881).
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Mark Twain (1889).
Tarzan of the Apes, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912).
A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs (1912).
The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde (1895).
An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde (1895).
Macbeth, William Shakespeare (1606).
A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare (1595).
Hamlet, William Shakespeare (1601).
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving (1820).
The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (1848).
The Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane (1895).
Five Children and It, E. Nesbit (1902).
The Adventures of Pinocchio, C. Collodi (1883).
The Sorrows of Young Werther, J.W. von Goethe (1774).
Heidi, Johanna Spyri (1880).
Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne (1873).
Les Misérables, Volume I, Victor Hugo (1862).
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo (1831).
A Little Princess, Frances Hodgson Burnett (1905).
The Railway Children, E. Nesbit (1906).
Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (1915).
The Tower Treasure, Franklin W. Dixon (1927).
The House on the Cliff, Franklin W. Dixon (1927).
The Secret of the Old Mill, Franklin W. Dixon (1927).
The Mystery of Cabin Island, Franklin W. Dixon (1929).
The Great Airport Mystery, Franklin W. Dixon (1930).

About the edition codes: XX-EN means the language you are learning is XX (the prominent one), with English alongside. EN-XX is the mirror, English prominent and XX alongside, for people learning English.

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