Read I Robinson italiani in Italianwith every sentence explained

I Robinson italiani by Emilio Salgari was first published in 1896. In Passage you read the full text in the original Italian, marked beginner and filed under children and young adult. It runs to about 69,800 words.

A ship blown sky-high. Three survivors. One wild island in the middle of nowhere.

In 1840 the Genoese brigantine Liguria is crossing the Sulu Sea, loaded with cotton, weapons and six hundredweight of gunpowder. One windless night two mutinous Maltese sailors escape in the only lifeboat and set the ship on fire. Minutes later the Liguria explodes.

Only three people survive: Emilio Albani, a cultivated Venetian explorer, the sturdy sailor Enrico, and the cabin boy Ubaldo, known to everyone as "Little Tuna". Clinging to a broken mast and fighting off sharks, they reach an unknown island. There they must build everything from nothing: a house in the treetops, bread from wild plants, tools and weapons, while facing poisonous trees, giant snakes, orangutans, tigers and the pirates who haunt these waters.

Emilio Salgari's 1896 castaway adventure is a lively Italian answer to Robinson Crusoe, packed with nature, danger and ingenuity.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Italian. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:

• a natural translation of that exact sentence,
• a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
• the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
• all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.

It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of Italian and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.