Italian · Intermediate
Read Le tigri di Mompracem in Italianwith every sentence explained
English title: The Tigers of Mompracem
Emilio Salgari · 1900
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About the book
Le tigri di Mompracem by Emilio Salgari was first published in 1900. In Passage you read the full text in the original Italian, marked intermediate and filed under romance, thriller and suspense and young adult. It runs to about 90,200 words.
A pirate king. A wild island. A love that could destroy him.
From the island of Mompracem, off the coast of Borneo, the fearsome Sandokan, "the Tiger of Malaysia", wages war on the British who robbed him of his throne and his family. His fleet of prahus terrifies the seas, and at his side is his loyal friend, the cool-headed Portuguese adventurer Yanez.
But Sandokan has heard rumours of the "Pearl of Labuan", a young woman of extraordinary beauty living on the nearby British island. Driven by curiosity, he sails for Labuan, and a bloody battle leaves him wounded on enemy soil. When he wakes, the Pearl is standing beside him, and the Tiger's heart is no longer his own.
The first Sandokan novel made Emilio Salgari Italy's king of adventure. Swashbuckling and romantic, it inspired the legendary 1976 TV series starring Kabir Bedi.
- Author
- Emilio Salgari
- First published
- 1900
- Language
- Italian
- Level
- Intermediate
- Genre
- Romance, Thriller and Suspense, Young Adult
- Length
- About 90,200 words
How it opens
La notte del 20 dicembre 1849 un uragano violentissimo imperversava sopra Mompracem, isola selvaggia, di fama sinistra, covo di formidabili pirati, situata nel mare della Malesia, a poche centinaia di miglia dalle coste occidentali del Borneo.
Pel cielo, spinte da un vento irresistibile, correvano come cavalli sbrigliati, e mescolandosi confusamente, nere masse di vapori, le quali, di quando in quando, lasciavano cadere sulle cupe foreste dell’isola furiosi acquazzoni; sul mare, pure sollevato dal vento, s’urtavano disordinatamente e s’infrangevano furiosamente enormi ondate, confondendo i loro muggiti cogli scoppi ora brevi e secchi ed ora interminabili delle folgori.
Reading Le tigri di Mompracem 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.
