Gradient Books
Bridges into books you couldn't otherwise read.
Gradient Books publishes three kinds of bridges: progressive translations that walk English readers into a foreign-language classic one page at a time, first-ever English editions of important but overlooked works, and rediscoveries of out-of-print English books that deserve a modern edition.
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Gradient Books publishes three kinds of bridges: progressive translations that walk English readers into a foreign-language classic one page at a time, first-ever English editions of important but overlooked works, and rediscoveries of out-of-print English books that deserve a modern edition.
Some books are worth the extra work of building a bridge to them.
Read more →Progressive Translations
Read your way into another language.
Instead of throwing readers straight into a fully foreign text, our progressive translation format begins with more support in English and then slowly increases the proportion of the original language over the course of the book. By the final chapter, you're reading entirely in the original language.
- Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
First English Editions
Important, overlooked works — in English for the first time.
Some books shaped the world they were written into and then simply never crossed the language barrier. This series brings those works to English readers for the first time, with context that explains why they still matter.
- An Empire Crumbles Emilio Salgari (1911)
- Caught Between the Comets Oskar Hoffmann
- Yanez's Revenge Emilio Salgari (1913)
- Stranded on Jupiter Oskar Hoffmann
- The Brahmin of Assam Emilio Salgari (1911)
- The Voyage of Terror Oskar Hoffmann
- Return to Mompracem Emilio Salgari (1908)
- The Death Crater Oskar Hoffmann
- The Mutiny Aboard the Meteor Oskar Hoffmann
- Sandokan Strikes Back Emilio Salgari (1907)
- The Master of the Skies Oskar Hoffmann (1908)
- The Future of New China Liang Qichao (1902)
- Life on the Planet Mars Giovanni Schiaparelli (1893–1909)
- A Treatise on Exchange, Merchants' Contracts, and the Condemnation of Usury Cristóbal de Villalón (1541)
- The Sejm Sermons Piotr Skarga (1597)
Rediscoveries
Out of print. Worth finding again.
Some books were already in English and still fell out of reach — out of print, without a usable ebook, or otherwise hard to find. This series brings those works back as careful modern editions.
- Round the World on a Penny Anita Willets-Burnham (1933)
