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Revolutionary Literature, Republished

A digital library of the books that shaped the Armenian revolutionary generation — republished free, in the original Armenian and in new English translation, as interactive editions built for reading and exploring.

Most of these works have never been easy to find, and harder still to read outside Armenian. Translating them into English opens them to the generation that studies, organizes, and thinks in English — without letting go of the originals, which stay on the page beside the translation. This is a new way of reading Armenian literature, and the shelf is only getting longer.

Armenian and English together

Every book in the original Armenian and a new English translation, side by side — so no reader is locked out of these texts by language.

Made to explore

Notes on the history, geography, and language open inside the text, and chapters open with a short orientation. An edition built for the web, not a scanned PDF.

A growing collection

The first complete text is up, and the memoirs of the revolutionary generation are in production. New titles join the shelf as they are finished.

The collection

1 complete · 2 in preparation
Interactive edition · Armenian + English
Պապիկ եւ թոռնիկ
Papik yev Tornik: Grandfather and Grandson
Mkrtich Khrimian (Khrimian Hayrik) · 1894

Khrimian Hayrik's primer on Armenian village life, written in dialogue: a grandfather teaches his grandson to plow, sow, reap, keep sheep, plant trees, marry, and at the end to die. All twenty-four chapters in the original Armenian and a new English translation, both annotated with notes on the history, the geography, and the language of the text.

Select the wheat marks for notes, and read the Armenian and English side by side.
Explore the interactive edition →
DownloadՀայերէն (PDF · 1.4 MB)English (PDF · 1.4 MB)

Coming next

Translated · QA passed
Հայ յեղափոխականի մը յիշատակները, Հատոր Ա
Memoirs of an Armenian Revolutionary, Volume 1
Ռուբէն Տէր Մինասեան · Rouben Der Minassian · 1952

All 14 chapters and 3 front-matter pieces are translated and QA passed; the web edition is in preparation.

Rights cleared
Ապրած օրեր
Days Lived (Aprats Orer)
Արմէն Գարօ · Armen Garo / Karekin Pastermadjian · 1948

Approved for republication; a source scan has not been located yet.

The shelf keeps growing — new titles join as their translations are completed.