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Four books for our example translations

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Reading in English

  1. The Prince

    Not published

    Niccolò Machiavelli · Italian original → English edition

    Get to know this book

    • What the book is

      Machiavelli's sixteenth-century treatise on power, dedicated to Lorenzo de' Medici: a dedication and 26 chapters.

      The English edition is not published yet.

    • Dedication, first sentence

      Italian original

      Sogliono il più delle volte coloro che desiderano acquistare grazia appresso un Principe, farsegli innanzi con quelle cose, che tra le loro abbino più care, o delle quali vegghino lui più dilettarsi; donde si vede molte volte esser loro presentati cavalli, arme, drappi d’oro, pietre preziose e simili ornamenti, degni della grandezza di quelli.

  2. Around the World in Eighty Days

    Not published

    Jules Verne · French original → English edition

    Get to know this book

    • What the book is

      Jules Verne's adventure novel of 1873, in 37 chapters.

      The English edition is not published yet.

    • Chapter 1, first paragraph

      French original

      En l'année 1872, la maison portant le numéro 7 de Saville-row, Burlington Gardens--maison dans laquelle Sheridan mourut en 1814--, était habitée par Phileas Fogg, esq., l'un des membres les plus singuliers et les plus remarqués du Reform-Club de Londres, bien qu'il semblât prendre à tâche de ne rien faire qui pût attirer l'attention.

  3. Baekbeom Ilji

    Not published

    Kim Gu · Korean original → English edition

    Get to know this book

    • What the book is

      The autobiography of Kim Gu, president of the Korean Provisional Government, in two parts and the essay “My Wish”.

      The English edition is not published yet.

    • Author's note, first paragraph

      Korean original

      이 책은 내가 상해와 중경에 있을 때에 써놓은 글을 한글 철자법에 준하여 국문으로 번역한 것이다. 끝에 본국에 돌아온 뒤의 일을 써놓았다.

How books written in English are translated

The Conquest of Happiness was written in this page's language. Each edition is shown with its decision.

The Conquest of Happiness · Bertrand Russell

Chapter 1, first sentences

English original

Animals are happy so long as they have health and enough to eat. Human beings, one feels, ought to be, but in the modern world they are not, at least in a great majority of cases.

No edition is published yet.

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