Collection: Language Learning Fiction

Adaptation of the play written in 1844 by José Zorrilla, which is an interpretation of the legend of Don Juan.

Don Quixote is a victim of his delusions. He suffers physical harm, and many people play practical jokes on him for entertainment. Don Quixote's friends and family find very little support from other people when they want him to come home and rest, hoping to cure him of his delusions.

Includes 20 short stories with heartwarming or sentimental themes. All stories are written in plain Japanese using grammar and vocabulary at approximately the JLPT N3 level. Footnotes are given to words and expressions considered harder than the N3 level. A character count is given at the end of ...

The author documents his ten-year search for details about the life of a Jewish Parisian teenager who ran away from her Catholic boarding school and was ultimately deported to Auschwitz by the Nazis, describing the Paris of that time period and reminiscing on memory and loss.

Provides instruction in Spanish by using texts from literature as a textbook, with the story recorded in a Castilian Spanish accent on the accompanying disc. Each chapter has activities especially designed to develop the four skills of reading, writing, listening and speaking. Also included is in...

Dismay and exuberance, rootedness and estrangement: Jhumpa Lahiri's themes reach a peak in this book. The woman at the center of the story oscillates between immobility and movement, between the search for identification with a place and the refusal, at the same time, to create permanent ties.

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.

The Chinese are the only people in the whole world to worship and honour the dragons almost as gods. Although dragons are shown in ancient legends as the most divine and powerful of creatures, it can be said that the Chinese dragon culture is the core of everyday Chinese wisdom.

It starts with four well-known amusing stories involving dragons, which show how various people may react to different situations in a world of imagination with dragons and phoenixes.

Tim and his family travel to Weimar to celebrate his grandparents’ golden wedding anniversary. Grandpa has prepared a very special gift for Grandma, but that evening at the opera, the gift is stolen. Tim sets out to uncover who took it and whether he can catch the thief in time.