Full catalogue / Changeling / Bangla – English

Donn Byrne

Changeling

Name: Changeling
Brand: Polyglot Publishing
SKU: 03c5a1c7-1ca3-83e8-7527-6fc0419de75b-bn-en
Price: 54.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Donn Byrne

Original publication: 1923
Bilingual edition: June 12, 2026
Pages: 548
Difficulty: ★☆☆
Genres: Horror, Science Fiction
Translated from: English

Book summary

A collection of thirteen stories by the Irish-American writer Donn Byrne, published in 1923. In the title story, a former Broadway chorus girl is tried in New York for a murder committed ten years earlier; the policeman who brought her back from the South Seas tells the court how a shipwreck changed her. The other stories travel from Ireland to the Andes, from the streets of New York to the biblical times of Delilah and the Queen of Sheba. Lively, moving tales to read one by one.

The plot

A woman changed by a desert island. In New York, Anna Janssen is on trial for a murder committed ten years ago. Strong and tanned, she no longer looks like the dancer she once was.

The world of the book

Thirteen stories, from Ireland to the Andes. After twelve years in America, a man returns to the farm where he grew up, by the sea.

The author

Donn Byrne. Born in New York in 1889, Donn Byrne grew up in the hills of northern Ireland, where he learned to speak Irish as well as English. As a student in Dublin, he became his university’s boxing champion. Back in…

The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout

Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

The excerpt shows the method using another book from the catalogue, not this one.

Similar books

Explore the site

Other languages you can learn

See the whole catalogue