La Batalo de l' Vivo (The Battle of Life)

Stevenson's gripping story of a respected doctor and his monstrous other self, in the 1909 translation by William Morrison and William W. Mann, revised for smoother reading.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The castaway who builds a new life on a desert island, retold in Esperanto by A. Krafft in 1908. A shorter, lively version of Defoe's adventure that keeps every key moment of the story.

Daniel Defoe

Louisa May Alcott's Civil War story of a nurse, a formerly enslaved man and a dangerous secret, translated by Edwin Grobe. A short, moving read with natural dialogue.

Louisa May Alcott

Two children grow up together on a tropical island in this famous 18th-century romance. Translated by Hector Hodler, co-founder of the Universal Esperanto Association, in fluent and elegant prose.

Bernardin de Saint-Pierre