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"Silver Blaze", a story by A. C. Doyle, has been kindly aligned by JamarriJa and is now available for free download on Aglona Reader site.
Thank you, JamarriJa!

The Hound of the Baskervilles, the famous crime novel by A. C. Doyle, has been finally aligned in English and Russian. You can download it for free from Aglona Reader site.

"The Lady with the Dog" (Дама с собчакой), a story by Anton Chekhov, has been aligned by JamarriJa.
Thank you, JamarriJa, for your efforts to make Russian classics closer to learners of Russian!
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What about Chekhov's stories? They are the best ones to start with :)
Maybe "Дама с собачкой"?

EDIT: Alas, it seems no public domain French translations of this story available...

EDIT2: here...

Valda, uh, there are currently NO French-Russian books in PBO format.
You can align and share them with the community, but that requires some work ;) You could start with some short stories.
If you...

"The Daughter of the Commandant", a historical novel by Alexander Pushkin, is finished as a parallel book in Russian and English in PBO format and available on Aglona Reader project site.
Although...

"Ward No. 6", a depressive, yet very strong and thought-provoking story by Anton Chekhov, was released today in ParallelBook format.
This story was used as an example in a Youtube video showing the...

Meanwhile in post-Soviet Russia...
Aglona Reader 1.3 has been released! It features a new Alternating mode of representing text.

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Someone may find it easier to read than the Normal mode....

The second short story by Pushkin, "The Shot", is finished! 655 fragment pairs.
This time I tried to substitute archaic forms of words and even whole words with their modern equivalents (where...

Haha, There is the first volunteer for aligning an English-Russian book. She is my wife :) We've just signed a contract, she'll align "Martin Eden". She says it'll take a year to complete, but I am...

The voice of the narrating lady strangely reminds me that of speech synthesis at Google's, so lifeless and emotionless it is (I hope that was not you) ;)
But this mp3 is very useful to know where...

Not at all! They will be very surprised that you use so advanced Russian, because it only shows how serious the books you read are.
When sometimes (rarely) I listen or read "literary" Russian from...

If you want to help the noble cause of broadening the public library of the parallel books, you can take part in it, provided:

Your knowledge of both Russian and English is intermediate or above;...

As for the truly modern language, it is very difficult to find a book that is in the public domain together with its translation. Often original books in modern language, being in the public domain,...

I have highlighted words and phrases that are perfectly normal in modern Russian.

The slightly "archaic" style of this story is not that of Pushkin himself, but of Belkin, a fictional author of "Tales of Belkin". As a matter of fact, this style is more ironic than archaic and a...

This format is very, very new. It was created in September 2012 and the first (and so far only) program for it was finished in October 2012.
An app for iPad will indeed be created, but definitely...

The first book is a brilliant romantic short story "Snow storm" by Alexander Pushkin, the genius of Russian literature.
600 fragment pairs.
See the screenshot....

In this topic I will post information about new parallel texts in ParallelBook format available for download.
ParallelBook format is a new ebook format specifically designed for parallel books used...