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...

Quando il corpo di una giovane donna viene trovato nella biblioteca di Gossington Hall, il tranquillo villaggio di St. Mary Mead viene sconvolto. Miss Marple usa la sua intuizione per scoprire la verità dietro un caso pieno di inganni e identità confuse.

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...

In Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, Charlie, Willy Wonka, and the Bucket family blast into space by accident in the Glass Elevator. After a run‑in with the U.S. Space Hotel and dangerous alien creatures, they return to the factory, where more chaotic adventures follow as Wonka helps Charlie’...

Charlie Bucket wins a rare golden ticket to visit Willy Wonka’s mysterious chocolate factory. Inside, he and four other children encounter fantastical rooms, strange inventions, and moral lessons as each misbehaving child meets a humorous downfall. In the end, Charlie’s honesty and kindness earn ...

"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...