Yegle - Classic Literature

Yegle is a multilingual reading and collaborative translation platform for classic literature. It lets you read original texts together with translations, sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph.

Explore timeless novels, plays, poetry, short stories, fairy tales, and humanities classics by authors such as William Shakespeare, Franz Kafka, Leo Tolstoy, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Brontë, Albert Camus, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Hermann Hesse, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Mary Shelley, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Osamu Dazai, and Lu Xun.

The library includes internationally recognized works such as Hamlet, The Metamorphosis, Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Little Prince, The Stranger, Demian, The Great Gatsby, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Animal Farm, The Old Man and the Sea, Frankenstein, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and No Longer Human.

Depending on the work, Yegle provides original texts in English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Hebrew, and other languages, together with multilingual translations for comparative reading.

More than a standard e-book viewer, Yegle is designed for close reading, language study, and collaborative translation. Readers can examine how individual sentences and paragraphs are expressed in the original language, compare them with translations, discuss translation choices, and help build openly reusable translations of public-domain classics.

Yegle is especially useful for language learners, literature enthusiasts, students, translators, and anyone who wants to understand classic works more deeply through their original texts.

Key Features

* Read classic literature in the original language with translations
* Compare original texts and translations sentence by sentence and paragraph by paragraph
* Explore novels, plays, poetry, short stories, fairy tales, and humanities classics
* Participate in collaborative translations of public-domain works
* Discuss translation choices and help improve existing translations
* Check each work’s language, length, word count, and estimated reading time
* Access texts in English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and other languages
* Browse and read freely without creating an account
* Enjoy a mobile-friendly reading experience on the web and in the app

Copyright Notice

Yegle mainly provides source texts that are in the public domain or whose copyright protection has expired. The availability of individual works may vary by country because copyright terms depend on factors such as local law, the author’s year of death, and the work’s first publication date.

Translations, annotations, edited editions, and other derivative materials may have separate copyright protection even when the original work is in the public domain.

Yegle does not reproduce copyrighted modern translations published by existing publishers. Instead, it develops its own translations and collaborative translation resources based on public-domain source texts. Where indicated, translations provided through Yegle may be reused under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).

Yegle aims to make classic literature an open knowledge resource that more people can read, study, translate, discuss, and improve together.