Classic authors, country by country
One classic from each country to read in its original language, with the translation facing.
Click a coloured country to discover its authors.
United Kingdom
- Lewis Carroll
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- H. G. Wells
- Rudyard Kipling
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Mary Shelley
- Anna Sewell
- E. Nesbit
- Joseph Conrad
- Daniel Defoe
- John Stuart Mill
- Virginia Woolf
- …
United States
- Jack London
- H. P. Lovecraft
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- L. Frank Baum
- Mark Twain
- Washington Irving
- Frances Burnett
- Frederick Douglass
- Stephen Crane
- Henry James
- Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Henry Thoreau
- …
France
- Jules Verne
- Maurice Leblanc
- Gaston Leroux
- Alexandre Dumas
- René Descartes
- Victor Hugo
- Émile Zola
- Guy de Maupassant
- Voltaire
- Honoré de Balzac
- Anatole France
- Chateaubriand
- …
Ireland
- Oscar Wilde
- Jonathan Swift
- James Joyce
- Bram Stoker
- H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Donn Byrne
Russia
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Alexander Pushkin
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Mikhail Lermontov
- Leo Tolstoy
- Nikolai Gogol
Germany
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Karl Marx
- E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Ludwig Ganghofer
- Friedrich Huch
