Collection: Language Learning Fiction

"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...

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.