Collection: Language Learning Fiction

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...

"Cronache terrestri" is a posthumous collection of journalistic writings by the renowned Italian author Dino Buzzati. This anthology brings together a selection of Buzzati's most significant contributions to Corriere della Sera and Corriere d'informazione, encompassing articles, correspondences, ...

"A mysterious and haunting tale of romance and murder, that begins with the marriage of a man and a woman in love. But when he inexplicably mistreats his beloved on the night of the wedding, he is in turn murdered by her brothers, and we are left with a strange sense of inevitability and passions...

How do you ignore what beats inside you? How do you recover the course of a life traced by a lie? From a very young age, Maya has sacrificed herself body and soul for ballet. She works as a soloist in the National Dance Company and the most prestigious ballets have set their sights on her. Howeve...

As well as an introduction, the text includes a glossary explaining difficult words at the end, as well as interesting facts that place the story in context. It includes a complete reading of the text by a professional narrator as well as a set of pronunciation exercises.