Collection: Language Learning Fiction

A play about a group of Russian socialist terrorists who prepare for the assassination of the Tsar's granduncle in 1905.

Abridged adaptation of the humorous novella by Swiss author Gottfried Keller about an unemployed tailor who is mistaken for a very wealthy man due to the nice clothes he is wearing that he has made himself.

Introduces 42 traditional Korean folktales with bilingual Korean and English versions, presented on facing pages, together with detailed notes and exercises aimed at beginning learners of the language. The book can be used as a reader in first- and second-year Korean language courses or by anyone...

Emma, a young person from Italy, spends the summer holidays with a German family in Berlin. Actually she just wants to get to know the city and improve her German. But then Rufus, the family dog runs away and the exciting search through the whole city begins!.

"To save Queen Guinevere, who is being held prisoner in the Kingdom of Gorre, will Lancelot risk being dishonoured by going on the defamatory road to doom? Along the journey full of dangerous perils, the brave knight encounters numerous traps set by the evil Meleagant…"--Publisher's website.

Pour sauver la reine Guenievre, prisonniere au royaume de Gorre, Lancelat va-t-il monter sur la charrette des condamnes et se deshonorer?

Chief Vitalstatistix rashly invites his brother-in-law to dine on a stew seasoned with Caesar's laurel wreath, so Asterix and Obelix must go to Rome to fetch those laurels. Hoping to get access to Caesar, they sell themselves as slaves - but can they do a deal with the corrupt Goldenelicius to sw...

Leo is a painter and a passionate cook. Each year he shows his paintings in his pub. This time, the exhibition gets a particularly big response, but unfortunately the success also attracts uninvited guests.

"It narrates the compelling saga of the Florio family, who rose from humble beginnings to become one of the most influential dynasties in 19th-century Sicily."--Publisher's website.

The essays here generally involve conflicts near the Mediterranean, with an emphasis on the author's home country Algeria, and on the Algerian War of Independence in particular.