Italian · Intermediate
Read Le meraviglie del Duemila in Italianwith every sentence explained
English title: The Marvels of the Year 2000
Emilio Salgari · 1907
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About the book
Le meraviglie del Duemila by Emilio Salgari was first published in 1907. In Passage you read the full text in the original Italian, marked intermediate and filed under science fiction. It runs to about 51,400 words.
Two men fall asleep in 1903. They wake up a hundred years later.
James Brandok is young, handsome, rich and bored to death with life. His friend Dr. Toby Holker, who lives on the island of Nantucket, has discovered a mysterious flower whose extract can suspend life for a century. Why not try it? The two friends seal themselves inside a small vault on a lonely rock, leaving their fortune and precise instructions to Toby's family.
In September 2003, Toby's great-grandnephew opens the vault, and the sleepers wake. Around them is a world they could never have imagined: news whispered from a device under the pillow, flying ships, messages from Martians, trains racing at incredible speed, a city beneath the sea and colonies at the North Pole. But can men of the past really live in the future?
Written by Emilio Salgari in 1907, this is one of Italy's first great science-fiction novels, full of predictions that still surprise.
- Author
- Emilio Salgari
- First published
- 1907
- Language
- Italian
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Science Fiction
- Length
- About 51,400 words
How it opens
Il piccolo battello a vapore che fa il servizio postale una volta alla settimana, fra Nuova York, la più popolosa città degli Stati Uniti d’America settentrionale e la piccola borgata dell’isola Nantucket, quella mattina era entrato nel piccolo porto con un solo passeggero.
Accadeva spesso, durante l’autunno, terminata la stagione balneare, che rarissime persone approdassero a quell’isola, abitata solo da qualche migliaio di famiglie di pescatori che non s’occupavano d’altro che d’affondare le loro reti nei flutti dell’Atlantico.
Reading Le meraviglie del Duemila in Passage
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 intermediate: comfortable once everyday Italian feels familiar, with the harder sentences one tap away. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
