La Inĝenia Hidalgo Don Quijote de La Mancha (Don Quixote)

Josef K. is arrested one morning without ever learning his crime in Kafka's unsettling masterpiece. A complete, carefully proofread translation by Dorothea and Hans-Georg Kaiser.

Franz Kafka

A young widow fights to support her daughter in a society that gives women almost no way to earn a living. Zamenhof translated this powerful novel himself, and it remains a landmark of early Esperanto prose.

Eliza Orzeszkowa

Goethe's epic poem about a young man who falls in love with a refugee girl, told in nine cantos of verse. Benno Küster's 1922 translation opens with a preface on the work and its time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A draper's daughter marries a brilliant painter and learns how far apart their worlds really are. Balzac's sharp portrait of love and social class, translated by Paul Benoit in 1924.

Honoré de Balzac

A young man writes to a Paris merchant asking for his daughter's hand, and a lighthearted story of courtship and family pride unfolds. Adapted into Esperanto from Dumas by Benedict Papot in 1909.

Alexandre Dumas