Fundamenta Krestomatio (Fundamental Chrestomathy)

Published in 1907, this is the first novel ever written directly in Esperanto. A family drama of secrets, crime and inheritance around an old castle, written by the French doctor Henri Vallienne in about 150,000 words.

Henri Vallienne

An original Esperanto novel set in ancient Mesopotamia, full of temples, kings and the cult of the goddess Ishtar. One of the best-known early novels written in Esperanto from the start.

Heinrich August Luyken

Thousands of proverbs and sayings collected and rendered into Esperanto by Zamenhof, arranged alphabetically. A treasure of idiomatic expressions that brings the language to life.

L. L. Zamenhof

Zamenhof's speeches, from a 1904 gramophone greeting to his addresses at the World Esperanto Congresses. His own words on the ideals behind the language.

L. L. Zamenhof