New books
Five new classics, five English editions, and the Lounge
Five classics joined the Ether Library today. Three are new English translations made from the original German, Classical Chinese and Russian. Wuthering Heights and Moby-Dick are the original English texts. Anyone can read the first chapter; members read to the end and download EPUB and PDF, free.
The Sorrows of Young WertherGoethe, 1774/1787. Letters from a spring village by a young man who loves a woman already promised to another. New translation from the German.
Wuthering HeightsEmily Brontë, 1847. Two children raised together on the Yorkshire moors, and a love that wrecks two families. Original English text.
Tao Te ChingLaozi. Eighty-one short chapters on the Way. New translation from the Classical Chinese, with the Chinese text alongside.
Moby-DickHerman Melville, 1851. A captain who lost his leg to a white whale hunts it across the world. Original English text.
The Brothers KaramazovDostoevsky, 1880. A father, three sons, three thousand rubles, and the question of what is permitted. New translation from the Russian.
The same five books are also in our complete Korean translations, so the library now holds 27 classics in Korean.
The Lounge
We also opened the Lounge, a small 3D room where you keep the books you finished and the audiobooks you listened to, and visit neighbors' public rooms. For now its screens are in Korean only. 라운지
Next up
The Analects, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Don Quixote. If you spot a typo or a sentence that reads oddly, tell us at [email protected].