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| jae Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5461 days ago 206 posts - 239 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Latin Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, French | Message 1 of 10 26 June 2010 at 11:39am | IP Logged | ||
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What sort of "bestseller books" have already been translated into Esperanto (I would be interested in buying one if such exist). For example Harry Potter, etc. (though I think that HP hasn't yet been translated :( ). Thanks!
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| dmaddock1 Senior Member United States Joined 5230 days ago 174 posts - 426 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Esperanto, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 2 of 10 26 June 2010 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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If by "bestseller" you mean modern, brand new novels, then basically nothing at all.
However, a lot of older books which were bestsellers in their day and are considered classics are available in translation such as Tolkien's Hobbit & Lord of the Rings, George Orwell, Mark Twain, and a lot more. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6267 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 10 26 June 2010 at 4:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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There is an Esperanto translation of Harry Potter, but the group who translated it were
unsuccessful getting it published. The company that holds the rights doesn't want to publish it, and they are not ready to negotiate terms for a different company publishing the Esperanto translation. Edited by Sprachprofi on 27 June 2010 at 12:16pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| jae Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5461 days ago 206 posts - 239 votes Speaks: English*, German, Latin Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, French | Message 4 of 10 05 July 2010 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks. And to dmaddock1: Yep, that's what I meant. Tolkien, George Orwell, etc. as well (just couldn't find the right word ;-) ). Where are those books available? Are any of them available online?
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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6236 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 5 of 10 05 July 2010 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Some modern books are available in translation; I have "La lada tambureto" in Esperanto, which is a translation of Günter Grass's "Die Blechtrommel", which won the Nobel prize in literature in 1999.
La Esperanto librejo has a few well-known Polish books in Esperanto. Project Gutenbegr's Esperanto section has a wider range of books, of mixed quality. DonH's Esperanto literature site also has a wide range. It has an excerpt from 'The Hobbit." I've seen "Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit" in Esperanto physically, but I haven't seen them online (I haven't looked either, though). If you want physical books, UEA's catalog is the first place to look. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6706 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 10 07 July 2010 at 1:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe it's a stupid question... are books like these ever recorded? I'd like to try L-R for Esperanto but I'm not sure if there are any classics/bestseller audiobooks. Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 07 July 2010 at 6:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dmaddock1 Senior Member United States Joined 5230 days ago 174 posts - 426 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Esperanto, Latin, Ancient Greek | Message 7 of 10 07 July 2010 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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The aforementioned UEA catalog has a good selection, as does the Esperanto USA site. There are a few public domain translations in Project Gutenberg. As for audiobooks, I have not found much after a lot of searching. There is a complete recording of Alice in Wonderland at LibriVox. I found an audio excerpt from La Hobito here in Real Audio format.
For several original Esperanto classics, Tekstaro has well formatted copies in HTML. I'm converting these for the Kindle for myself. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6236 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 8 of 10 07 July 2010 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | ||
There are some audiobooks, but none that I'd recommend L-R'ing with that I'm aware of, unfortunately. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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