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You will find below a list of famous texts and readings in English, some of which we have converted into Basic English and corrected to be sure there are no errors and no confusion in the meaning of words. We will add more as we convert more books. These books are ideal both for English learning and to learn more about Basic English.

General

Basic Dictionary of Science by E. C. Graham

General

Basic Rules of Reason by I.A. Richards

General

General

General History in Outline and Story by E. H. Carter

On the important Side of Science and Art by Leo Tolstoy (Complete edited Simplish Translation)

General

Basic Dictionary of Science by E. C. Graham

General

General

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Complete edited Simplish Translation)

Beyond good and evil by Friedrich Nietzsche (Edited Simplish Translation)

General

General

Basic English in Dari by Paul Pajo

English Through Pictures 1 and 2 by I. A. Richards and Christine M. Gibson

General

English Through Pictures 3 by I. A. Richards and Christine M. Gibson

General

Basic English and Wordsworth

General

Why not Basic Spanish?

General

Basic English shorthand

General

Fiction

Gulliver in Lilliput by Johathan Swift

Fiction

Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (Complete edited Simplish Translation)

Fiction

Religion

The Analects by Confucius (Complete edited Simplish Translation)

Religion

Book of Mormon

An account written by the hand of Mormon upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi

Religion

Koran

Religion

Bible in Basic English The New Testament

Religion

Short Stories

The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen

Short Stories

Cat in the Rain by Ernest Hemingway

Short Stories

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Short Stories

Florizel and Perdita by Shakespeare

Short Stories

Lamb’s Stories by Shakespeare

Short Stories

The Strange Behavior of Mr. Legrand by Edgar Allan Poe

Short Stories

Keawe's Bottle by Robert Louis Stevenson

Short Stories

Short Stories

Hoichi The Biwa-Player by Lafeadio Hearn

Weight and Mass by J. W. N. Sullivan

Short Stories

Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling

Short Stories

Translations into Basic English / Nine short translations, side-by-side

Short Stories

The Rights of Man by H.G. Wells

Short Stories

Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw

Short Stories

Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Short Stories

Some Notes On Early Ideas Of The Form And Size Of The Earth, E. G. R. Taylor - The Geographical Journal,Vol. 85, No. 1 (Jan., 1935)

Short stories

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

From Frequency_to_Meaning:Vector_Space Models_of_Semantics

Artificial Intelligence

LIMSIILES: Basic English Substitution for Student Answer Assessment at SemEval 2013 by Martin Gleize and Brigitte Grau

Artificial Intelligence

Ontological Help for a Lexical Semantics of Basic English Jim Cunningham

A Conversational Agent for Use in the Identification of Rare Diseases (uses Simplish)

Artificial Intelligence

Philosophy

The Republic of Plato by I.A. Richards

Philosophy

Tractatus Logico Philosophicus by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophy

Finnegans Wake meets Basic English by Susan Shaw

Philosophy

Philosophy

Basic English Semiotics by James McElvenny

Philosophy

Ampliative Reasoning - C.S. Peirce on Abduction