Collection: Language Learning Fiction

Vendettas, fierce family pride, resistance fighters dodging the enemy in the maquis - we're in Corsica in 50 BC. Asterix and Obelix help Chief Boney was a warrior wayayix to foil the evil designs of Praetor Perfidius and oppose Julius Caesar's army. For the only emperor the proud Coriscans will e...

Ordered by Cleopatra to build a palace in Alexandria within three months as part of a bet with Caesar, an architect enlists the help of Asterix, Obelix and Getafix.

In Rome, the geographer Cartographus informs Julius Caesar of the reported existence of the griffin, a beast that is half-eagle and half-lion with horse's ears, located in Sarmatian territory in the remote eastern lands of Barbaricum. The Romans have captured a Sarmatian Amazon woman, Kalashnikov...

Obelix is in love - but the beautiful Panacea is engaged to Tragicomix, conscript in the Roman army. Who'd have expected to see Asterix in a legionary's uniform - When he and Obelix join up to rescue Tragicomix from North Africa, Centurions Nefarius Purpus and Dubius Status don't know what's hit ...

The novel tells the story of Denise Baudu, a 20-year-old woman from Valognes who comes to Paris with her younger brothers and begins working as a saleswoman at the department store "Au Bonheur des Dames". Zola describes the inner workings of the store from the employees' perspective, including th...

Felipe Montero is employed in the house of an aged widow to edit her deceased husband's memoirs. There Felipe meets her beautiful green-eyed niece, Aura. His passion for Aura and his gradual discovery of the true relationship between the young woman and her aunt propel the story to its extraordin...

"In einem Amsterdamer Hinterhaus versteckt sich die jüdische Familie Frank im Sommer 1942 vor den Nationalsozialisten. Hier schreibt Anne Frank ihr weltberühmtes Tagebuch, dem sie – wie einer besten Freundin – all ihre Beobachtungen, Gedanken und Gefühle anvertraut. In der Enge des Verstecks und ...

Une série d’entretiens avec des Australiens qui dévoile la diversité, les valeurs et les paradoxes de la culture australienne à travers cinq thèmes clés : multiculturalisme, mateship, lien à la terre, sport et défis contemporains.

Contemporary architecture, shared gardens, street art, coworking cafes, cultural wasteland: the east of Paris is undergoing a metamorphosis. By offering itineraries that begin where tourists usually stop, these ten walks invite urban explorers to step aside and broaden their horizons. Discover th...