Does Anybody Know If There's A Book Written In English And French? Not Like A Traduction!

[Michigui]

For exemple, one character is english and the other is french and instead of translating everything in one language we can just read both at the same time..?

[Peter Pedant]

erm the only I can think of is ...
Tolstoy War and Peace - first edition - partly written in French and partly in Russian
then he decided he was Russian after all and got the second edition all in Russian.

remember that traductions ( translations ) are not usually very good. I read Les Miserables in translation and then Dickens Oliver Twist and it was immediately obvious why the translator (or traducteur) translated for peanuts and why Dickens was a very rich successful author

[Peter Pedant]

oh - - there is this
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/french/bilingual-books-french-english/

[ichkeria]

Dickens is interesting: his French characters’ words are rendered in English but you almost feel the original French.

[Peter Pedant]

oh Golly back to the Tale of Two Cities
it was on tel the uvva day - Dirk Bogarde

( hey you can really touch my estuarial accent innit huh? - or n'est-ce pas?)

He found it such a strain that he said he would never do a historical novel again ( he hired a gopher for the detail ) and then he did Barnaby Rudge - well arteests dont have to tell the truth

People did my mothers trick - yeah that's right my muvva used to ring him up and say:
" Mr Dickens - that detail is wrong" - and then point out....

hey did you notice in the film - Stryver calls him Sidney and I reckon it would be Stryver and Carton no matter how close they were

and in Vanity Fair they do a breakfast scene with the candles on? Not enough light to do without I think

[jourdain2]

Charlotte Bronte's 'Villette' is the nearest I can come up with.