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Forty-one translations of When the Machines Were Young
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The English original
The book was written in British English. Read it online, or download the illustrated PDF and the reflowable EPUB from the front page.
About the translations
Each translated edition is the whole illustrated book: the frame, all twenty-one fables, the bestiary, the notes for grown-ups, and the questions, with the same paintings and the same typeset pages as the English edition. Only the words change.
The translations were made with machine assistance against a style sheet written for each language, and they have not yet been reviewed by a commissioned native translator. They are offered in that spirit: free, complete, and open to correction. If you spot a mistake in your language, the author page explains how to get in touch.
Every translation is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence as the original.