La Mirinda Sorĉisto de Oz (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

Lewis Carroll's classic tale of Alice's fall into a world of talking animals and impossible logic, in E. L. Kearney's 1910 Esperanto translation. A story most readers already know, which makes the new vocabulary much easier to follow.

Lewis Carroll

The Little Prince in Esperanto, illustrated with Saint-Exupéry's own watercolors. Short chapters and simple sentences make it one of the most loved first reads for new learners.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Scrooge meets the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come in a concise version of Dickens' holiday classic. Martyn Westcott's 1905 translation, revised in easy, modern Esperanto.

Charles Dickens

Pushkin's short story of a secret elopement that goes wrong on a snowy night, translated by the pioneer Esperanto poet Antoni Grabowski in 1888. At under 20 pages, an ideal first complete story.

Aleksandr Pushkin