I want to ask where I can find/buy in pdf format bilingual beginner-intermediate level german novels similar to penguin parallel text novels. I searched but could not find a good resource.
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"Farmer Giles of Ham" (J.R.R. Tolkien) is a good bilingual text novel, but I can't find an ebook version.– ToschoCommented Feb 14, 2014 at 11:31
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dtv zweisprachig is a German series.– WolfCommented Feb 14, 2014 at 14:42
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I had the Russian version of "First Reader Erste englische Lesestücke" so I assume the English version could help you to start. The level is really beginner.– frlanCommented Feb 19, 2014 at 19:40
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related: german.stackexchange.com/questions/6278/…– TakkatCommented Mar 4, 2014 at 11:44
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About.com provides a list of dual-language books: LINK.
- Demian - A Dual Language Book
- Siddharta - A Dual Language Book
- Great German Poems of the Romantic Era/Berühmte Gedichte der Deutschen Romantik
- 103 Great Poems/103 Meistergedichte
- Best Short Stories/Die schönsten Erzählungen
- Death in Venice & A Man and His Dog/Der Tod in Venedig & Herr und Hund
- Five Great German Short Stories
- German Stories/Deutsche Erzählungen
- German Short Stories 2/Deutsche Kurzgeschichten 2
Additionally, you can find some children's books at a site like this.
Also, I know of at least one site with free PDF children's books (only German, but pretty basic, LINK).
I found a site for reading parellel texts:
for example, Siddartha from Herman Hesse
http://paralleltext.io/read/?b=de-en-siddhartha
(click the Hamburger menu and then
I can't find a direct link or full catalog, but here are some suggestions from the site:
in this case, also available from Project Gutenberg:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Siddhartha&submit_search=Go%21