La Eta Princo (The Little Prince)

Lewis Carroll's classic tale of Alice's fall into a world of talking animals and impossible logic, in E. L. Kearney's 1910 Esperanto translation. A story most readers already know, which makes the new vocabulary much easier to follow.

Lewis Carroll

Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion follow the yellow brick road in Donald Broadribb's complete translation. Clear, modern prose for readers taking their first steps in Esperanto.

L. Frank Baum

Scrooge meets the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come in a concise version of Dickens' holiday classic. Martyn Westcott's 1905 translation, revised in easy, modern Esperanto.

Charles Dickens

Pushkin's short story of a secret elopement that goes wrong on a snowy night, translated by the pioneer Esperanto poet Antoni Grabowski in 1888. At under 20 pages, an ideal first complete story.

Aleksandr Pushkin