Collection: Language Learning Fiction

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.

A collection of 15 classic Chinese folk stories - passed down from generation to generation - presented in both Chinese and English. Welcome to the land of Chinese folklore, a delightful corner of the Chinese heritage that remains relatively unexplored in Western publications. Throughout history ...

How was the earth and man created? How were the properties of tea discovered? How did a poor cowherd and a fairy fall in love? How did Chang'e, a young woman who didn't want to lose her beauty, fly to the moon with Yutu, the Jade Rabbit? This book includes ten stories, ten journeys between past a...

Story of the Buendía family, whose patriarch, José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia.

A trip around Italy from a foreigner's perspective. Every town in the Bel Paese has its own distinct character. Visiting these places the traveller meets some interesting people, enjoys some strange and exciting experiences, and observes with an ironic humour the diverse peculiarites that he enco...

"Città reali scomposte e trasformate in chiave onirica, e città simboliche e surreali che diventano archetipi moderni in un testo narrativo che raggiunge i vertici della poeticità."-- from https://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/citta-invisibili-calvino-italo-mondadori/libro/9788804668022.