Collection: Language Learning Fiction

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.

This book is based on a course of French culture or speaking. Featuring 80 illustrated texts accompanied by activities to promote understanding and cultural icons which are symbolic figures (objects, people, ideas, events, rituals) that play an essential role in the construction of national ident...

Consisting of both original stories and classics that have been adapted, each book in this highly recommended series is filled with colourful pictures and activities to facilitate understanding and encourage students to revise fundamental grammar points and practise their oral and written skills.

A collection of mini-detective stories starring Sara Corelli and her assistant Pippo Caraffa. Each story offers a final quiz for the student who has the task of finding the solution to the case.

Having escaped from the Chateau d'If, Edmond Dantès settles in Paris, under the mysterious name of the Count of Monte-Cristo.

This classic intrigue features Edmond Dantès as a hero, a young sailor from Marseilles who, on the way to marry the beautiful Mercedès, is denounced as a Bonapartist conspirator by his friend and rival in love. Wrongfully imprisoned for 18 years in the Château d'If of the coast of Marseilles, he ...

Beautifully designed and illustrated easy reader complete with grammar and comprehension exercises. The text includes an introduction in accessible Spanish containing interesting facts that place the story into context as well as a glossary at the bottom of the page which explains difficult terms...

A retired colonel waits for the arrival of an official letter stating that he reclaims his rights for his service to his country.

The novel began to take shape in 1909. Proust continued to work on it until his final illness in the autumn of 1922 forced him to break off. Proust established the structure early on, but even after volumes were initially finished he kept adding new material, and edited one volume after another f...