ESKER PRESS

books and quiet instruments, made one at a time

A small independent press in northern Ontario. It makes new translations, restores public-domain books into deluxe editions, and builds the odd piece of software for people who read. Everything here is kept plain on purpose.

The editions
Sienkiewicz · a new translation
Knights of the Cross
two volumes · from the Polish
Knights of the Cross
Sienkiewicz's Krzyżacy, translated fresh from the Polish and set against the century-old Curtin edition.
Flagship · in final review
Remarque
All Quiet on the Western Front
from the German
All Quiet on the Western Front
Remarque, retranslated. A public-domain edition prepared from Canada.
In preparation
More titles
on the bench
New ones arrive when they are ready.
Instruments & other work

Pharos

Live

A reading system for e-ink. It is built to help you savour a book rather than keep score of it, so there are no streaks and nothing to win.

Trailmark

Podcast

A quiet podcast and its small archive, handed out to the people who would like it.

The atelier

Read it

How a book is made here, start to finish: the typesetting, the covers baked into the art, the long argument with a first draft.

Book primers

Reading soon

Spoiler-free parchment guides that walk you into a long series before you start it.

StudyScroll

In development

A study app built for the way one actually revises: a scroll of a course, not a stack of flashcards.