Read the great books as they were written.
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. Now on the App Store, beginning with Homer’s Odyssey in Ancient Greek.
The library.
Eleven guided editions, each with its own type, paper, and palette, chosen for the book, with a day mode and a night mode. Two more works are underway. Start with the one you’d most like to read as it was written.
The West’s first great homecoming, and the reason we still tell stories about wanderers. The complete poem, and an audiobook on the way.
Open edition →Buenos Aires written from underground and in a fever: the great novel of modern dread in Spanish.
Open edition →The book modern poetry begins with: the sublime, reached straight through the sordid.
Open edition →Poems that look back at you. The poet who could make ‘you must change your life’ sound true.
Open edition →A murder, a trial, and the largest questions a person can ask: the most formidable case against God ever put in a character’s mouth.
Open edition →Philosophy written like scripture. Nothing has thought harder about what it costs to believe.
Open edition →One of the angriest books of its century, hidden inside one of the funniest.
Open edition →Japan’s best-loved novel: one long, glorious burst of temper, and the friendliest door into the language.
Open edition →A whole island made whole on the page, where fate deals out love and death like cards at a table.
Open edition →A cruel boy shrunk to thumb-size, carried off by wild geese, with all of Sweden unrolling beneath him.
Open edition →Two Gulliver voyages by Karinthy: a world of singing machines, then an undersea empire where women rule and men are kept.
Open edition →Read. Listen. Understand. Speak.
A great book rewards the reader who returns. The edition picks up exactly where you left off, and stays out of the way otherwise. Free on your first chapter.
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, 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.
From the studio: audiobooks and books.
The editions are where a book opens deepest. Some works ask for more than a screen. So the studio also makes recordings you can live inside, and translations you can hold.
The Odyssey, complete, in Ancient Greek.
All twenty-four books: 12,107 lines, more than eighteen hours, performed in reconstructed pronunciation, with the pitch accent restored and every verse shaped to its hexameter. To our knowledge, the first complete audiobook of the Odyssey in Ancient Greek. Arriving on Spotify, Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo.
Our translations, between covers.
Where we make our own English translations, we’ll publish them whole, as an ebook and in print. First up: Karinthy’s Voyage to Faremido and Capillária, Gulliver’s fifth and sixth voyages, in their first new English translations in a century.
The particulars.
- Ancient Greek
- Ὀδύσσεια, Homer. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Spanish
- Los siete locos, Arlt. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- French
- Les Fleurs du mal, Baudelaire. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- German
- Ausgewählte Gedichte, Rilke. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Russian
- The Brothers Karamazov. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Danish
- Frygt og Bæven, Kierkegaard. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Dutch
- Max Havelaar, Multatuli. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Japanese
- 坊っちゃん, Sōseki. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Italian
- I giuochi della vita, Deledda. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Swedish
- Nils Holgerssons underbara resa, Lagerlöf. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Hungarian
- Utazás Faremidóba and Capillária, Karinthy. Public-domain text; translation © 1732 Studios.
- Pricing
- The first chapter is free: the complete app, every feature. One unlock covers the rest, yours forever, $19.99. No subscription, no ads.
- Method
- The translations are our own, drafted with machine assistance and verified line by line. We think these tools give more readers a real chance at the great books. How the editions are made.
- Privacy
- Speech analysis runs on device. Your reading and your voice never leave your phone.