English–French Bilingual Books
Our English–French editions place the original text and its translation side by side as parallel text, aligned sentence by sentence. You always know exactly which sentence corresponds to which — no page flipping, no dictionary breaks, no losing your place.
French learners often get stuck between the textbook and authentic literature — bilingual reading bridges exactly that gap. Enjoy English classics with an elegant French rendering beside each sentence, or lean on the English column while you read in French. Works in both directions, from about A2–B1 upward.
Every edition comes in two layouts — side-by-side (two columns, ideal for tablets, desktops and print) and paragraph (stacked, ideal for e-readers) — as both EPUB and PDF, DRM-free with instant download.
Who English–French is for — both directions
French learners often stall in the gap between the textbook and a real novel — this pair is built exactly for that jump, in both directions. English speakers get English classics with an elegant French translation beside each sentence, so silent endings, liaison, and the gendered articles stop being abstract rules and become things you simply see in context. French speakers reading the other way use the English column as a safety net while enjoying the same literature in English.
English borrowed so heavily from French that the shared vocabulary is enormous — table, nation, restaurant, courage all cross straight over — which lets a newer reader move quickly. Aligned reading is also the cleanest way to internalise where the languages quietly diverge: 'actuellement' means currently, not actually; 'librairie' is a bookshop, not a library. From about A2–B1 the parallel text does the heavy lifting for you.
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Follow the mischievous Tom Sawyer through his childhood adventures along the Mississippi River in this American classic.
$3.99 USD
The Age of Innocence
Edith Wharton
A Pulitzer Prize-winning portrait of desire and betrayal in 1870s New York high society.
$5.99 USD
Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
A satirical novel about a middle-class American businessman and his struggle with conformity in the 1920s.
$3.99 USD
The Call of the Wild
Jack London
The gripping story of Buck, a domesticated dog thrust into the brutal life of an Alaskan sled dog during the Klondike Gold Rush.
$1.99 USD
Ethan Frome
Edith Wharton
A tragic tale of forbidden love set against the bleak winter landscape of rural New England.
$3.99 USD
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Huck Finn and the escaped slave Jim raft down the Mississippi in this groundbreaking American novel.
$5.99 USD
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott
The heartwarming story of the four March sisters growing up during the American Civil War.
$5.99 USD
Main Street
Sinclair Lewis
A young woman's struggle against the conformity and cultural poverty of small-town American life.
$5.99 USD
My Ántonia
Willa Cather
A luminous portrait of immigrant life on the Nebraska plains, told through the memories of a childhood friend.
$3.99 USD
The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
A powerful tale of sin, guilt, and redemption in Puritan Massachusetts.
$5.99 USD
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The glittering, tragic story of Jay Gatsby and the American Dream in the Roaring Twenties.
$3.99 USD
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
The miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is transformed over one haunted Christmas Eve in Dickens's timeless ghost story of redemption.
$1.99 USD
The Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka
A traveling salesman wakes one morning transformed into a monstrous insect, in Kafka's haunting parable of alienation.
$1.99 USD
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Robert Louis Stevenson
A respected doctor and a monstrous stranger share one terrifying secret in Stevenson's classic tale of the divided self.
Free
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
A curious girl tumbles down a rabbit hole into a nonsensical world of talking creatures and mad logic.
$1.99 USD
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle
Twelve of the world's most famous detective stories, following Holmes and Watson through Victorian London.
$5.99 USD
Grimm's Fairy Tales
Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
The classic German fairy tales — Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Rapunzel and more — in a bilingual selection.
$3.99 USD
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
A young scientist creates a living being from dead matter — and unleashes a tragedy he cannot control.
$3.99 USD
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet and the proud Mr Darcy spar their way toward love in Austen's beloved comedy of manners.
$5.99 USD
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
A beautiful young man stays forever youthful while his portrait bears the corruption of his sins.
$3.99 USD
A Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens
Dickens's sweeping tale of love, sacrifice and revolution, moving between London and Paris in the shadow of the guillotine.
$5.99 USD
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Carlo Collodi
A wooden puppet comes to life and stumbles through an adventure of mischief and peril on his way to becoming a real boy.
$3.99 USD
Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson
Young Jim Hawkins sets sail in search of buried pirate gold — and must outwit the cunning Long John Silver in the adventure that defined the genre.
$3.99 USD
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
L. Frank Baum
Dorothy follows the yellow brick road with three unforgettable friends in this clear, adventurous beginner classic.
$3.99 USD
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie
Wendy and her brothers fly to Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up in this magical adventure.
$3.99 USD
The Secret Garden
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A lonely girl discovers a locked garden and helps bring a forgotten corner of a Yorkshire manor back to life.
$5.99 USD
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde
Five moving fairy tales about kindness, beauty and sacrifice, led by the golden statue of the Happy Prince.
$1.99 USD
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell
A horse tells the story of his life with kind and cruel owners in this enduring plea for compassion.
$3.99 USD
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune on circling the globe in eighty days and begins a race against time.
$3.99 USD
A Little Princess
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sara Crewe loses her fortune but protects her dignity and imagination through hardship at a London school.
$3.99 USD
The Railway Children
E. Nesbit
Three children find adventure, friendship and hope beside a country railway after their father disappears.
$3.99 USD
Aesop's Fables
Aesop
Brief animal stories deliver memorable lessons about human nature, from the tortoise and hare to the boy who cried wolf.
$1.99 USD
Just So Stories
Rudyard Kipling
Playful tales explain how animals got their most famous features, from the camel's hump to the leopard's spots.
$1.99 USD
The Jungle Book
Rudyard Kipling
Mowgli learns the Law of the Jungle among wolves, Baloo and Bagheera in a classic collection of animal adventures.
$3.99 USD
The Wind in the Willows
Kenneth Grahame
Mole, Rat, Badger and reckless Mr Toad share gentle riverbank days and wildly comic adventures.
$3.99 USD
Pollyanna
Eleanor H. Porter
An orphan's habit of finding something to be glad about slowly transforms her stern aunt and an entire town.
$3.99 USD
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Other Stories
Beatrix Potter
Six gentle animal tales begin with mischievous Peter Rabbit's forbidden visit to Mr McGregor's garden.
Free
English Fairy Tales
Joseph Jacobs
A lively collection of traditional tales including Jack and the Beanstalk, The Three Little Pigs and many more.
$3.99 USD
Amerika
Franz Kafka
Sixteen-year-old Karl Roßmann is shipped off to America after a scandal back home, and stumbles into a bewildering New York of chance encounters and dreamlike bureaucracy.
$3.99 USD
Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery
An orphan girl's irrepressible imagination transforms a quiet Nova Scotia farm and everyone around her.
$5.99 USD
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
Four generations of a proud Lübeck merchant dynasty rise, prosper, and slowly come apart.
$9.99 USD
Das Schloß
Franz Kafka
A land surveyor's search for legitimacy in a snowbound village spirals into a parable of bureaucratic futility.
$3.99 USD
Der Golem
Gustav Meyrink
A gem-cutter in Prague's Jewish ghetto is drawn into a hallucinatory web of dreams, doubles, and ancient mysticism.
$3.99 USD
Der Prozess
Franz Kafka
Josef K. is arrested one morning for a crime no one will name, and drawn into a labyrinthine, inaccessible court.
$3.99 USD
Der Struwwelpeter
Heinrich Hoffmann
Darkly comic cautionary rhymes about mischievous children who meet wildly exaggerated fates.
$1.99 USD
Der Tod in Venedig
Thomas Mann
A celebrated writer's trip to Venice dissolves into obsession as a cholera epidemic silently spreads through the city.
$1.99 USD
Der Zauberberg
Thomas Mann
A young engineer visits a Swiss sanatorium for three weeks — and stays for seven years.
$9.99 USD
Die Biene Maja
Waldemar Bonsels
A young bee defies her hive to see the wide world, and must race home to warn of a hornet attack.
$3.99 USD
Heidi
Johanna Spyri
A young orphan blossoms in the Swiss Alps with her gruff grandfather, then works quiet wonders far from the mountains.
$3.99 USD
She
H. Rider Haggard
Two Englishmen sail into the heart of Africa in search of a two-thousand-year-old sorceress-queen and the secret of immortality.
$3.99 USD
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Falsely imprisoned for fourteen years, Edmond Dantès reinvents himself as a mysterious count and methodically destroys the men who betrayed him.
$9.99 USD
Tonio Kröger
Thomas Mann
A sensitive, artistic boy spends his life longing for the ordinary blond-and-blue-eyed world he can never fully belong to.
$1.99 USD
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Catherine Earnshaw and the fierce, tormented Heathcliff are consumed by a love that outlasts death itself, on the wild Yorkshire moors.
$5.99 USD
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
An orphaned governess finds her voice, her independence, and an impossible love at the brooding Thornfield Hall.
$5.99 USD
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Formats & download
- Two layouts: side-by-side (two columns) for tablets, desktop and print; paragraph layout for e-readers and phones.
- Formats: EPUB and PDF, DRM-free. EPUB runs on Kobo and Apple Books directly, and on Kindle after a free conversion.
- Instant download after purchase; your download links stay valid for 30 days.
- Every available title has a free, aligned reading sample.
Frequently asked questions
- What level should I be to read English–French bilingual books?
- From about A2–B1 the parallel text does the heavy lifting, so you can start earlier than with a monolingual novel. English and French share a vast borrowed vocabulary, which helps beginners recognise words fast. Each available title has a free aligned sample to check the fit.
- Can bilingual reading really improve my French?
- It's one of the most efficient ways to build vocabulary and get used to French sentence rhythm, liaison and gendered articles in real context rather than from rules. Reading pairs best with some listening and speaking, but it's the fastest route to a large passive vocabulary.
- Do these work for French speakers learning English too?
- Yes — the edition is fully bidirectional. French speakers read the English original with the French column as a safety net, and English speakers do the reverse. Both languages sit side by side, aligned sentence by sentence.
- Which format and devices are supported?
- EPUB and PDF, both DRM-free. The two-column side-by-side layout shines on tablet, desktop and print; the paragraph layout is made for e-readers and phones. EPUB opens on Kobo and Apple Books directly, and on Kindle after a free conversion.