Bookmate will present previously untranslated books by Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley and other foreign classics.

The book service Bookmate has announced a new series of books, Bookmate Translations. Within its framework, new Russian translations of books by famous foreign authors, which for various reasons have remained unnoticed, will be published.

The series will include novels by Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Henry James and other foreign classics. The books will appear in electronic and audio formats on Bookmate, and printed versions will be published by the Subscription Editions publishing house.

It is noted that when creating the series, special attention was paid to the selection of specialists: translators, editors and proofreaders. Among the translators are Sergey Karpov (“Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace, “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood” by Quentin Tarantino), Yulia Zmeeva (“City of Women” and “Eat, Pray, Love” by Elizabeth Gilbert), Alexandra Glebovskaya (“Normal People” Sally Rooney, “The Christmas Pig” by JK Rowling), Yulia Poleshchuk (“Crossroads” and “The End of the End of the Earth” by Jonathan Franzen, “The Witch Elm” by Tana French).

The novels that are planned to be translated as part of the series have not previously been published in Russian. Among them:

• "The Secret of the Sea" by Bram Stoker. In Russia, the Irish writer is known mainly as the author of the Gothic novel Dracula. “The Secret of the Sea” is an adventure novel with a dynamic plot, full of unexpected twists.
• "Faulkner" by Mary Shelley. Readers know the English writer primarily from the novel “Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.” “Faulkner” is her last and best, in the opinion of the writer herself, novel.
• "Under the Mask" by Louisa May Alcott. One of the first published texts by the American writer, famous for her autobiographical novel Little Women. The heroine of the novel works as a governess in a mansion and gradually subjugates all its inhabitants.
• "Another House" by Henry James. James is a classic of American literature who paid attention to the interaction of the cultures of the Old and New Worlds in the novels “The Americans,” “The Europeans,” and “The Bostonians.” In Another House, the action takes place in London, and at the center of the story are socialites involved in a murder.
• "The Sanctuary" by Edith Wharton. Wharton is an American writer, the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for her novel The Age of Innocence. "Sanctuary" is a story about the marriage of a decent girl to a man with terrible secrets and secrets, as well as about their son, who risks following in his father's footsteps.
• "The Samurai's Daughter" by Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto. The plot of the book by an American novelist of Japanese descent is based on the story of a girl born in feudal Japan and sent to America to be with her fiancé. “The Samurai’s Daughter” was created in the first third of the 20th century, but even today it can be read as a relevant text.

The first books in the Bookmate Translations line will be released this year.

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