Collection: Language Learning Fiction

Xinxin is a Chinese girl who lives in Italy. When the school year ends, she travels to Shanghai to spend the summer holidays with her paternal grandparents. Torn between two cultures, Xinxin discovers a world that she only partially understands. This graded reader provides a moving and memorable ...

"The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of the greatest musicians and composers of all time: his beginnings as a 'child prodigy', the long, exhausting journeys across Europe, his youth, his successes and failures until his premature death in extreme poverty. The episodes - both dramatic and com...

Woyzeck deals with the dehumanising effects of doctors and the military on a young man's life. It is often seen as 'working class' tragedy, though it can also be viewed as having another dimension, portraying the 'perennial tragedy of human jealousy'.

Es gibt Orte auf der Welt, an denen Natur und Lebewesen harmonisch miteinander verbunden sind und die wundervolle Landschaften bilden. Es sind Orte, die wir alle gerne besuchen würden. Ihre Schönheit, Geschichte, Kunst und Natur sind einmalig! Dies ist eine Reise zu zehn wundervollen Orten auf de...

A new country, a new city, a foreign language. Orientation is not easy there. U-Bahn or S-Bahn? Where is the post office? And what about the ticket? Tarek doesn't have time. But the letter urgently needs to be sent to the post office..

Adaptation of the Emanuel Schikaneder's libretto to Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte (The magic flute) The Queen of the Night persuades Prince Tamino to rescue her daughter Pamina from the high priest Sarastro. Aided by Papagena, Tamino finds the princess with the help of a magic flute and falls in...

可怜的小詹姆斯在四岁时成了孤儿, 他与两个可恶的姨妈住在一起. 她们把小詹姆斯当奴仆使唤, 直到有一天, 一个像房子一样大的仙桃彻底改变了他的生活. 在这个奇妙的大仙桃里, 有一群奇怪又可爱的朋友正等着他呢！小詹姆斯与他的朋友们开始了一段奇异的旅行.

"This volume tells you nine stories behind nine proverbs, and invites the reader to guess the corresponding Italian proverb for each one."--Publisher's description.

"Zorro is the caped crusader who defends the oppressed. In the village of Los Ángeles, Zorro fights the bullying Captain Ramon and Sergeant Gonzalez, and falls in love with young Lolita. A legendary figure, whose fame has captured generations of readers of all ages."--Publisher's website.

A collection of short readers enriched by colour illustrations, notes on vocabulary and interspersed with a variety of comprehension activities and exercises. The accompanying audio material offers a reading of the entire story as well as some listening exercises, as detailed in the books. With d...