Collection: Language Learning Fiction

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.

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.