Collection: Language Learning Fiction

This novel describes the beginning of an astonishing love. When Proust's teenage narrator travels from Paris to the sunny seaside town of Balbec, he meets an intriguing set of new acquaintances who provide him with both friendship and entertainment. Most significantly, he meets a girl: the myster...

Lorenzo travels to the city of Puerto Iguazú to reunite with his uncles and his cousin who he has not seen for many years. There he is involved in an animal theft by a gang of poachers. Lorenzo, with his cousin Jota and his new friends Greta and Sandra, then decide to get on the trail of the band...

"Avril 1999. Mount Pleasant, une paisible bourgade du New Hampshire, est bouleversée par un meurtre. Le corps d'une jeune femme, Alaska Sanders, est retrouvé au bord d'un lac. L'enquête est rapidement bouclée, la police obtenant les aveux du coupable et de son complice. Onze ans plus tard, l'affa...

El Alquimista is the magical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns to travel in search of a worldly treasure as extravagant as any ever found.

Amaia es una joven que vive en Bilbao con la madre. Tiene una vida normal: le gusta escuchar música, tiene amigos en el instituto, sus padres están separados pero se llevan bien, y los domingos va a visitar a sus abuelos. Sin embargo, un día recibe una extraña solicitud de amistad en su página de...

Set in the pre-war Indochina of Marguerite Duras's childhood, this is the haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her Chinese lover. In spare yet luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins of Saigon in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and its r...

Story of the childhood and adolescence of Elena and Lila.

The entertaining reading series for German as a foreign language that contains stories from the middle of life, regional studies information, an exercise section with tasks on reading and listening comprehension, solutions and suggested solutions.

"Anéantir is a novel that explores themes of existential despair, family dynamics, and the social and political tensions of contemporary France. The story centers on a French civil servant named Paul Raison, who is grappling with personal tragedies, including his mother’s illness and complex fami...

On March 12, 2003, television news and radio flashes opened on a small Italian robber unknown to the general public. Antonio Ferrara is not 30 years old and has just signed the most extraordinary escape. A commando has just extracted Ferrara from prison with bazookas and Kalashnikovs. The new Mes...