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The Great Library Project: 128 books, each in the language it was written in, with the English under every word.
Ancient Greek. A True Story (Lucian of Samosata), Aesop's Fables (Aesop), Alexandra (Lycophron), An Ephesian Tale (Xenophon of Ephesus · Ἐφεσιακά), Anabasis, Book I (Xenophon), Critias (Plato · Κριτίας), Crito (Plato), De Materia Medica (Dioscorides), Deipnosophistae (The Learned Banqueters) (Athenaeus · Δειπνοσοφισταί), Dialogues of the Courtesans (Lucian), Elegies, Book 2 (Theognis of Megara), Enquiry into Plants (Theophrastus), Euthyphro (Plato), Exhortation to the Greeks (Clement of Alexandria), Heraclitus: Fragments (Heraclitus of Ephesus), History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides · Ἱστορίαι), Iliad, Book I (Homer), Laws (Plato), Lysistrata (Aristophanes), Medea (Euripides), Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), On Mixtures (Galen), On Nature (Parmenides), On the Mysteries (Iamblichus), Paraphrase of the Gospel of John (Nonnus of Panopolis), Phaedo (Plato), Phaedrus (Plato), Symposium (Plato · Συμπόσιον), Symposium (Xenophon), The Apology of Socrates (Plato), The Argonautica (Apollonius of Rhodes), The Bacchae (Euripides), The Clouds (Aristophanes), The Corpus Hermeticum (Hermes Trismegistus), The Frogs (Aristophanes), The Histories (Herodotus · Ἱστορίαι), The Hymn to Demeter (the Homeric Hymns), The Library of Greek Myth (Apollodorus), The Library of History, Book IV (Diodorus of Sicily), The Life of Apollonius of Tyana (Philostratus), The Odyssey (Homer), The Orphic Gold Tablets (the Orphic tradition), The Orphic Hymns (the Orphic tradition), The Republic: the Cave (Plato), The Sorceress (Theocritus), The Victory Odes (Pindar), Timaeus (Plato · Τίμαιος)
English. Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery), Anne of Green Gables (L. M. Montgomery), Dracula (Bram Stoker), Dracula (Bram Stoker), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), Grimms' Fairy Tales (Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm), Grimms' Fairy Tales (Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm), Heidi (Johanna Spyri), Heidi (Johanna Spyri), Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Arthur Conan Doyle), The Call of the Wild (Jack London), The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas), The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexandre Dumas), The Jungle Book (Rudyard Kipling), Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson), Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Koine Greek. Revelation (John of Patmos), The Didache (the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles), The Gospel of John (John the Evangelist), The Gospel of Mark (Mark the Evangelist), The Gospel of Matthew (Matthew the Evangelist), The Hymn of the Pearl (from the Acts of Thomas), The Letters (Ignatius of Antioch), The Septuagint (the Seventy (Οἱ Ἑβδομήκοντα))
Classical Chinese. Journey to the West (Wu Cheng'en), Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Pu Songling), Tao Te Ching (Laozi), The Analects (Confucius), The Art of War (Sun Tzu), Zhuangzi (Zhuang Zhou)
Latin. Aeneid, Book IV (Virgil), Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus), Metamorphoses (Ovid), The Golden Ass (Apuleius), The Six Elegies (Sulpicia)
Portuguese. A Escrava Isaura (Bernardo Guimarães), Amor de Perdição (Camilo Castelo Branco), Dom Casmurro (Machado de Assis), O Guarani (José de Alencar), Os Lusíadas (Luís de Camões)
French. Around the World in Eighty Days (Jules Verne), Carmen (Prosper Mérimée), Cyrano de Bergerac (Edmond Rostand), The Phantom of the Opera (Gaston Leroux)
Italian. Inferno (Dante Alighieri), Pinocchio (Carlo Collodi), Poems to Tommaso de' Cavalieri (Michelangelo Buonarroti)
Spanish. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes), Leyendas (Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer), María (Jorge Isaacs)
Akkadian. Enūma eliš (The Babylonian epic of creation), Gilgamesh (Sîn-lēqi-unninni)
Biblical Hebrew. Genesis (the first book of Moses), The Song of Songs (attributed to Solomon)
Classical Persian. Layla & Majnun (Nizami Ganjavi), Rumi (Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī)
Ge'ez. The Book of Enoch (1 Enoch · the Ethiopic Bible), The Kebra Nagast (the Glory of the Kings · Ethiopia)
German. Duino Elegies (Rainer Maria Rilke), The Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
Middle English. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (the Gawain Poet), The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Sanskrit. Bhagavad Gita (from the Mahābhārata), Śakuntalā (Kālidāsa)
Aeolic Greek. Sappho: Fragments (Sappho of Lesbos)
Classical Arabic. One Thousand and One Nights (the tale-tellers of the Nights)
Classical Japanese. The Tale of Genji (Murasaki Shikibu)
Coptic. Pistis Sophia (Anonymous · the Askew Codex)
Early Modern English. Sonnets to the Young Man (William Shakespeare)
English · glossed to Portuguese. Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
K'iche' Maya. Popol Vuh (K'iche' Maya tradition)
Middle High German. The Nibelungenlied (Anonymous)
Old English. Beowulf (Anonymous)
Old French. Tristan & Iseult (Béroul)
Old Norse. Völsunga Saga (Anonymous)
Russian. Eugene Onegin (Alexander Pushkin)
