Mia Kontrabandulo (My Contraband)

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

A Dickens love story set on an old battlefield, translated by L. L. Zamenhof himself in 1891, just four years after Esperanto was born. A chance to read the language as its creator wrote it.

Charles Dickens

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