Collection: Language Learning Fiction

Epic story spanning three generations of the Trueba family.

The museum is located in a flat on the second floor of an ancient building in the heart of Lucca, where Giacomo Puccini was born on December 22, 1858. In this house the composer spent the years of his childhood and first youth. The birth home was transformed into a museum in 1979 and carefully re...

Claudio, Tiberio and Neron are three French students living in Rome. In the month of June, Valhubert Henri, the Parisian art collector, and the father of Claudio, is killed during the night in front of the Palazzo Farnese. At the same time, precious drawings by Michelangelo are stolen from the Va...

"When a mother of two young children, decides despite her husband's reluctance to resume work in a law firm, the couple is looking for a nanny. They hire one. There is too much drama and prejudice related to class or culture" -- cataloger's summary.

Young Italian nobleman, Fabrice del Dongo dreams of military glory. This is how he comes to join Napoléon and be present at the Battle of Waterloo. After spending three years in Naples he kills an actor and is imprisoned at Farnëse where he falls under the spell of the beautiful Clélia, the daugh...

Marcel Pagnol was a French novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. In 1946, he became the first filmmaker elected to the Académie française. Although his work is less fashionable than it once was, Pagnol is still generally regarded as one of France's greatest 20th-century writers and is notable for ...

"En levant les yeux vers le huitième étage d'une tour du XIIIe arrondissement de Paris, Agnès rejoint en pensée Boris et Tsila, ses grands-parents, et tous ceux qui vivaient autrefois dans le même immeuble. Rue du Château des Rentiers, ces Juifs originaires d'Europe centrale avaient invente...

Ci sono dei luoghi nel mondo dove la natura e gli esseri viventi si rispettano e, insieme, formano paesaggi meravigliosi. Sono luoghi che tutti vorremmo visitare, perchè hanno in sè una grande bellezza e ci ricordano che la storia, l'arte e la natura possono vivere in armonia. Ecco quindi un viag...

Widely considered the author's best work, this story of a love affair between Lea, a still-beautiful 49-year-old, and Cheri, selfish young man 30 years her junior, is a superb study of age and sexuality. While the theme of a young man who deserts his older mistress is a familiar one, Colette make...

Cheri is a delicate analysis of a May-December romance. It appears in the original French with an excellent new English translation.