Read Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis in Spanishwith every sentence explained

Los cuatro jinetes del Apocalipsis by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez was first published in 1916. In Passage you read the full text in the original Spanish, marked intermediate and filed under historical fiction.

Paris, summer 1914. Julio Desnoyers has love on his mind. Europe has war on its.

Julio, the spoiled and charming heir of a rich family, paints a little, dances the tango a lot and lives for his secret affair with Marguerite Laurier, a married woman. His family's fortune was made in Argentina, where his grandfather, the rough old rancher Julio Madariaga, built an empire on the pampas and married his daughters to two immigrants: Marcelo Desnoyers, a Frenchman, and Karl Hartrott, a German.

Now the two branches of the family live on opposite sides of a continent about to explode. As France mobilises, a strange Russian neighbour, Tchernoff, tells Julio about the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, conquest, war, famine and death, riding out over the world once more.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez's 1916 novel became a worldwide bestseller, and its 1921 Hollywood film made Rudolph Valentino a star.

Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in Spanish. 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 Spanish 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.