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Classic Novels

The stories everyone half-knows, in the language they were written in.

Real public-domain classics - Dumas, the Brothers Grimm, Cervantes - read in the original with an original Lipi translation and transliteration beside it. Pick a language to begin.

Free forever. Like our World Heritage reading room, these will never be locked or sold. Unlike that room, this one is built for language learners: original Lipi translations of genuinely public-domain texts, clearly labelled as ours, not a scholarly critical edition.

Choose a language

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French
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Les Trois Mousquetaires, the Fables of La Fontaine, Cendrillon
4 stories · Free
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German
Grimms' fairy tales - Rotkäppchen, Aschenputtel - and Schiller's Wilhelm Tell
3 stories · Free
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Spanish
Don Quijote's most famous scene, and a Bécquer legend
2 stories · Free

Every text here is genuinely in the public domain. Translations, transliterations and glosses are authored fresh by Lipi, never copied from an existing published edition, so we hold the copyright on our own words from day one.