Read the great books in their own language.
Learn French, German, Spanish, and more through guided editions of the world’s greatest texts — the original beside a clear translation, read aloud in a native voice, with the grammar & context a glance away.
Six of the world’s greatest texts.
Each is its own guided edition — its own type, paper, and palette, chosen for the book, with a day mode and a night mode. Start with the one you’d most like to read in the original.
A first edition of 1857 — antique ivory and oxblood by day; spleen, ink-black and gilt by night.
Open edition →The clarity of the Dinggedicht — cool studio daylight, then the blue hour. Spare and contemplative.
Open edition →The anxious machine-city — cool cement and an acid signal that feels wrong on purpose.
Open edition →The Orthodox icon — honeyed gesso and brick-red by day; candle-smoke and true gold leaf by night.
Open edition →The austere outlier — near-monochrome Lutheran stone with one grave accent: the Lenten purple of Moriah.
Open edition →A coffee broker’s ledger around a furious exposé of colonial Java — manila, espresso, tropical jade.
Open edition →Read. Listen. Understand. Speak.
No streaks, no points, no badges. You read a real book, and the edition does the quiet work of keeping you in it.
The original and the translation, side by side.
The author’s words on one side, a clear English translation on the other, aligned line by line. Two columns on iPad, stacked on iPhone. Glance over when you need to; look away when you don’t.
Every line, in a native voice.
Hear how the language actually sounds — its weight and its rhythm — not just how it looks on the page.
Notes for the line you’re on.
Tap any line for the grammar, the words, and the context behind it — written by us, for this text. An editor at your elbow, not a dictionary.
Read aloud, and hear how you did.
Read a line yourself and the edition scores it on your phone — the whole line first, then sound by sound. Your voice never leaves the device.
The particulars.
- French
- Les Fleurs du mal, Baudelaire — public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- German
- Ausgewählte Gedichte, Rilke — public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Spanish
- Los siete locos, Arlt — public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Russian
- The Brothers Karamazov — public-domain text; Constance Garnett, 1912 (public domain).
- Danish
- Frygt og Bæven, Kierkegaard — public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Dutch
- Max Havelaar, Multatuli — public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Pricing
- A free sample, then a one-time $29.99 unlock. No subscription, no ads, no accounts.
- Privacy
- Speech analysis runs on device. Your reading and your voice never leave your phone.