Gradient Books
Bridges into books you couldn't otherwise read.
Gradient Books publishes two kinds of bridges: progressive translations that walk English readers into a foreign-language classic one page at a time, and first-ever English editions of important but overlooked works.
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Gradient Books publishes two kinds of bridges: progressive translations that walk English readers into a foreign-language classic one page at a time, and first-ever English editions of important but overlooked works.
Some books are worth the extra work of building a bridge to them.
Read more →Progressive Translations
Read your way into another language.
Instead of throwing readers straight into a fully foreign text, our progressive translation format begins with more support in English and then slowly increases the proportion of the original language over the course of the book. By the final chapter, you're reading entirely in the original language.
- Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes
First English Editions
Important, overlooked works — in English for the first time.
Some books shaped the world they were written into and then simply never crossed the language barrier. This series brings those works to English readers for the first time, with context that explains why they still matter.
- The Sejm Sermons Piotr Skarga (1597)