Ray Cummings
Tarrano the Conqueror
- Original publication
- 1930
- Bilingual edition
- June 12, 2026
- Pages
- 405
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆
- Translated from
- English
About this book
Tarrano, a visionary and authoritarian man, establishes himself as the leader of an isolated group and seeks to build a new society under his control. Opposing him, a lucid narrator observes the rise of his power and its effects on individuals. Ideals quickly give way to rigid and disturbing domination. The story explores the mechanisms of power, manipulation, and resistance. The author offers a direct reflection on authoritarian excesses and the fragility of freedom in extreme contexts.
The benefits of the bilingual method with Line-by-line synced layout
Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.
The excerpt shows the method using another book from the catalogue, not this one.
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