Bilingual Books
Introduction
In this section of the website, out-of-copyright literary works are made available in multiple languages. The books are aligned to create parallel texts: each sentence or paragraph is alongside the same sentence or paragraph in the other language(s).
This resource is provided free of charge for the purpose of language learning, language teaching and translation research, and as a demonstration of the text alignment services offered here.
New books will be added on a regular basis, so keep checking back.
Technical information
Some of the texts were aligned by myself, others were provided by people with an interest in language learning through literature. Some alignments were done manually, others are unreviewed autoalignments. This information is listed in the books.
Some books are made available as parallel multilingual texts (i.e. in more than two languages, all side by side). You can hide the languages you don't need; just wait for the page to fully load, then press the Hide button and wait a few seconds. (Recommended browser: Chrome or Firefox.)
Requesting books
If there is a book you would like to see in the collection, try and find good quality source texts in as many languages as possible and send them to me for consideration. The book will probably be added eventually – if it is out of copyright, if it is of general interest and if the texts can be processed without any undue difficulty. Of course, if you would like to have a book aligned even if it is copyrighted or otherwise unsuitable for this collection, you can send me the texts (purchased as e-books, for instance) and order it as a normal paid job, to be delivered to you and not published on the site.
Contributing
Contact me by email if you would like to contribute to the project by helping collect, align and review public domain texts. You will of course be given full credit for your work in the completed files.
Copyright information
Source materials: An effort was made to make sure that all source texts are out of copyright or otherwise in the public domain in accordance with Hungarian law and are thus free to distribute. Contact me if you are a rights holder and you believe that a mistake was made and some of the works presented here are copyrighted. Any offending material will be taken down as soon as possible.
Use of the aligned books made available here: Downloading, copying and sharing individual books for personal use, language teaching and linguistic research is authorised, provided that appropriate acknowledgement is given as follows: © 2014 FarkasTranslations.com. Bulk downloading, bulk dissemination and commercial use not permitted. Contact me for permission to download or re-distribute the whole collection.
Bilingual books for e-readers
You can generate e-books for your e-reader (Kindle, Nook, Kobo etc.) from the books made available here.
The program I wrote for this purpose is Ebookmaker (for Windows only). It generates bilingual files in an 'interlaced' format, not in two columns (e-reader screens are too small for a two-column view). Here is a sample file (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in English and Spanish). The sample file is in .mobi format, but Ebookmaker can generate other formats as well.
In order to use Ebookmaker, you need to install Calibre. Then download Ebookmaker and download the .zip archive of the book you're interested in (click on the link in the table's Download column). Unpack both .zip files and launch Ebookmaker/bin/ebookmaker_xxx.exe.
List of Available Books
English
Most books contain an English text. To avoid unnecessary duplications, books with English as one of the languages are only listed at the other language(s).
Catalan
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer | en-de-hu-nl-ca | en-de-hu-nl-ca |
Dutch
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | en-es-nl-it | en-es-nl-it |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | en-hu-es-it-fr-nl | en-hu-es-it-fr-nl |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Sign of Four | en-nl | en-nl |
| Alexandre Dumas | Les Trois Mousquetaires | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer | en-de-hu-nl-ca | en-de-hu-nl-ca |
| Jules Verne | 20,000 lieues sous les mers | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Jules Verne | Les enfants du capitaine Grant | fr-de-nl-hu | fr-de-nl-hu |
| Jules Verne | Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Jules Verne | Voyage au centre de la Terre | fr-en-es-hu-nl | fr-en-es-hu-nl |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | fr-de-nl-hu | fr-de-nl-hu |
Esperanto
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo |
Finnish
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | en-fr-es-hu-fi-no | en-fr-es-hu-fi-no |
| Anatole France | Les Dieux ont soif | fr-en-fi | fr-en-fi |
| Jack London | The Call of the Wild | en-es-it-fi-sv | en-es-it-fi-sv |
French
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alain-Fournier | Le grand Meaulnes | en-fr | en-fr |
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | en-fr-hu | en-fr-hu |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | en-fr-es-it-de-hu | en-fr-es-it-de-hu |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | ru-fr-hu | ru-fr-hu |
| Daniel Defoe | Moll Flanders | en-fr | en-fr |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | en-hu-es-it-fr-nl | en-hu-es-it-fr-nl |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Great Shadow | en-fr | en-fr |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | en-fr-es-hu-fi-no | en-fr-es-hu-fi-no |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Rodney Stone | en-fr | en-fr |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet | en-fr-es | en-fr-es |
| Alexandre Dumas | La Dame aux Camélias | en-fr | en-fr |
| Alexandre Dumas | Les Trois Mousquetaires | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Alexandre Dumas | Les Trois Mousquetaires | en-fr | en-fr |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | fr-en-hu-de | fr-en-hu-de |
| Anatole France | Les Dieux ont soif | fr-en-fi | fr-en-fi |
| Victor Hugo | Notre-Dame de Paris | en-fr-de | en-fr-de |
| Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | en-fr-it-sv | en-fr-it-sv |
| Guy de Maupassant | Pierre et Jean | en-fr | en-fr |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo |
| Stendhal | La Chartreuse de Parme | en-fr | en-fr |
| Stendhal | Le Rouge et le Noir | en-fr | en-fr |
| Jules Verne | 20,000 lieues sous les mers | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Jules Verne | Les enfants du capitaine Grant | fr-de-nl-hu | fr-de-nl-hu |
| Jules Verne | L'Île mystérieuse | fr-en-es-hu | fr-en-es-hu |
| Jules Verne | Indes Noires | fr-hu | fr-hu |
| Jules Verne | Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours | en-fr | en-fr |
| Jules Verne | Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Jules Verne | Voyage au centre de la Terre | fr-en-es-hu-nl | fr-en-es-hu-nl |
| Voltaire | Candide | fr-en-hu-es-el | fr-en-hu-es-el |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | fr-de-nl-hu | fr-de-nl-hu |
| Émile Zola | Germinal | en-fr | en-fr |
| Émile Zola | Thérèse Raquin | en-fr | en-fr |
German
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | en-fr-es-it-de-hu | en-fr-es-it-de-hu |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | fr-en-hu-de | fr-en-hu-de |
| Victor Hugo | Notre-Dame de Paris | en-fr-de | en-fr-de |
| Franz Kafka | Der Prozess | en-de | en-de |
| Franz Kafka | Die Verwandlung | en-hu-es-de | en-hu-es-de |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | Il Principe | en-hu-it-es-de | en-hu-it-es-de |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, Volume 1 | ru-hu-en-it-es-de | ru-hu-en-it-es-de |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, Volume 2 | ru-hu-en-it-es-de | ru-hu-en-it-es-de |
| Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer | en-de-hu-nl-ca | en-de-hu-nl-ca |
| Jules Verne | Les enfants du capitaine Grant | fr-de-nl-hu | fr-de-nl-hu |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | fr-de-nl-hu | fr-de-nl-hu |
Greek
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voltaire | Candide | fr-en-hu-es-el | fr-en-hu-es-el |
Hungarian
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Austen | Pride and Prejudice | en-fr-hu | en-fr-hu |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | en-fr-es-it-de-hu | en-fr-es-it-de-hu |
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | ru-fr-hu | ru-fr-hu |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi |
| James F. Cooper | The Spy | en-hu | en-hu |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | en-hu-es-it-fr-nl | en-hu-es-it-fr-nl |
| Charles Dickens | Pickwick Papers | en-hu | en-hu |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | en-hu-es | en-hu-es |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | en-fr-es-hu-fi-no | en-fr-es-hu-fi-no |
| Alexandre Dumas | Les Trois Mousquetaires | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Gustave Flaubert | Madame Bovary | fr-en-hu-de | fr-en-hu-de |
| Franz Kafka | Die Verwandlung | en-hu-es-de | en-hu-es-de |
| Rudyard Kipling | Naulahka | en-hu | en-hu |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | Il Principe | en-hu-it-es-de | en-hu-it-es-de |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo |
| Sir Walter Scott | Ivanhoe | en-hu | en-hu |
| Henryk Sienkiewicz | Quo Vadis | en-hu | en-hu |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, Volume 1 | ru-hu-en-it-es-de | ru-hu-en-it-es-de |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, Volume 2 | ru-hu-en-it-es-de | ru-hu-en-it-es-de |
| Mark Twain | Tom Sawyer | en-de-hu-nl-ca | en-de-hu-nl-ca |
| Jules Verne | 20,000 lieues sous les mers | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Jules Verne | Les enfants du capitaine Grant | fr-de-nl-hu | fr-de-nl-hu |
| Jules Verne | Forceurs de Blocus | en-hu | en-hu |
| Jules Verne | L'Île mystérieuse | fr-en-es-hu | fr-en-es-hu |
| Jules Verne | Indes Noires | fr-hu | fr-hu |
| Jules Verne | Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Jules Verne | Voyage au centre de la Terre | fr-en-es-hu-nl | fr-en-es-hu-nl |
| Voltaire | Candide | fr-en-hu-es-el | fr-en-hu-es-el |
| Oscar Wilde | The Picture of Dorian Gray | fr-de-nl-hu | fr-de-nl-hu |
Italian
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | en-es-nl-it | en-es-nl-it |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | en-fr-es-it-de-hu | en-fr-es-it-de-hu |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | en-hu-es-it-fr-nl | en-hu-es-it-fr-nl |
| Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | en-fr-it-sv | en-fr-it-sv |
| Jack London | The Call of the Wild | en-es-it-fi-sv | en-es-it-fi-sv |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | Il Principe | en-hu-it-es-de | en-hu-it-es-de |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, Volume 1 | ru-hu-en-it-es-de | ru-hu-en-it-es-de |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, Volume 2 | ru-hu-en-it-es-de | ru-hu-en-it-es-de |
Norwegian
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | en-fr-es-hu-fi-no | en-fr-es-hu-fi-no |
Portuguese
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi |
Russian
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mikhail Bulgakov | The Master and Margarita | ru-fr-hu | ru-fr-hu |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, Volume 1 | ru-hu-en-it-es-de | ru-hu-en-it-es-de |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, Volume 2 | ru-hu-en-it-es-de | ru-hu-en-it-es-de |
Spanish
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Austen | Sense and Sensibility | en-es-nl-it | en-es-nl-it |
| Charlotte Brontë | Jane Eyre | en-fr-es-it-de-hu | en-fr-es-it-de-hu |
| Lewis Carroll | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi | en-hu-es-it-pt-fr-de-eo-fi |
| Miguel de Cervantes | Don Quijote de la Mancha | en-es | en-es |
| Daniel Defoe | Robinson Crusoe | en-hu-es-it-fr-nl | en-hu-es-it-fr-nl |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | en-hu-es | en-hu-es |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Hound of the Baskervilles | en-fr-es-hu-fi-no | en-fr-es-hu-fi-no |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | A Study in Scarlet | en-fr-es | en-fr-es |
| Alexandre Dumas | Les Trois Mousquetaires | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Franz Kafka | Die Verwandlung | en-hu-es-de | en-hu-es-de |
| Jack London | The Call of the Wild | en-es-it-fi-sv | en-es-it-fi-sv |
| Niccolò Machiavelli | Il Principe | en-hu-it-es-de | en-hu-it-es-de |
| Edgar Allan Poe | The Fall of the House of Usher | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo | en-hu-es-it-fr-de-eo |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, Volume 1 | ru-hu-en-it-es-de | ru-hu-en-it-es-de |
| Leo Tolstoy | Anna Karenina, Volume 2 | ru-hu-en-it-es-de | ru-hu-en-it-es-de |
| Jules Verne | 20,000 lieues sous les mers | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Jules Verne | L'Île mystérieuse | fr-en-es-hu | fr-en-es-hu |
| Jules Verne | Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours | fr-en-hu-es-nl | fr-en-hu-es-nl |
| Jules Verne | Voyage au centre de la Terre | fr-en-es-hu-nl | fr-en-es-hu-nl |
| Voltaire | Candide | fr-en-hu-es-el | fr-en-hu-es-el |
Swedish
| Author | Title | View in browser | Download |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerome K. Jerome | Three Men in a Boat | en-fr-it-sv | en-fr-it-sv |
| Jack London | The Call of the Wild | en-es-it-fi-sv | en-es-it-fi-sv |