READINGS in BASIC ENGLISH

 

Examples written in Basic English

 

 

 

GENERAL

• Basic Dictionary of Science   by E. C. Graham
• Basic Rules of Reason   by I.A. Richards 
• Debabelization   by C. K. Ogden
• General History in Outline and Story   by E. H. Carter
• On the important side of science and art   by Leo Tolstoy  (Edited Simplish Translation) 

 

FICTION

• Gulliver in Lilliput   by Johathan Swift
• Metamorphosis   by Franz Kafka  (Edited Simplish Translation)

 

RELIGION

• The Analects   Selections from the collected works of Confucius 
• Book of Mormon 
• Koran
• Bible in Basic English   Genesis

 

SHORT STORIES

• The Little Match Girl   by Hans Christian Andersen
• Cat in the Rain   by Ernest Hemingway
• Robinson Crusoe   by Daniel Defoe
• Florizel and Perdita   by Shakespeare
• Lamb’s Stories   by Shakespeare  
• The Strange Behavior of Mr. Legrand   by Edgar Allen Poe
• Keawe's Bottle   by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Hoichi The Biwa-Player   by Lafeadio Hearn
• Weight and Mass   by J. W. N. Sullivan
• Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince   by J. K. Rowling
• Learning Basic English   Nine short translations, side-by-side
• The Rights of Man   by H.G. Wells
• Arms and the Man   by George Bernard Shaw
• Treasure Island   by Robert Louis Stevenson

 

 

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