Collection: Language Learning Fiction

In six months, five women living alone have been murdered in Montmartre. After a conversation with a psychiatrist, Maigret pretends to have arrested the culprit, hoping that the real killer will show up.

The attempted suicide of a countess and the death of a billionaire in the same luxury Paris hotel send Maigret to the Riviera and then to Switzerland, as he searches for the truth amid the glittering world of the super-rich.

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The story is told mainly in the form of a flashback, with the killer describing how he carried out his mission. The killer's identity is established from ...

"En 1976, mon père a rouvert la maison qu’il avait reçue de sa mère, restée fermée pendant vingt ans. À l’intérieur : un piano, une commode au marbre ébréché, une Légion d’honneur, des photographies sur lesquelles un visage a été découpé aux ciseaux. Une maison peuplée de récits, où se croisent d...

I Malavoglia by Giovanni Verga is a foundational work of Italian verismo that follows the struggles of the Toscano family—known as the Malavoglia—in the Sicilian fishing village of Aci Trezza. After taking on a risky shipment of lupins to improve their fortunes, disaster strikes, plunging the fam...

Set in Renaissance Florence, it follows Callimaco, who schemes with the trickster Ligurio to seduce the virtuous Lucrezia by manipulating her gullible husband, Nicia. Through lies, disguises, and moral compromise, every character becomes entangled in a web of manipulation, revealing Machiavelli’s...

Germain consoles himself for the death of his wife who was left him alone with three children. Germain want to be married again for the sake of his children.

"Set in 1930, four years after Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance and subsequent divorce, the novel follows Christie as she travels to the Middle East to move past this tumultuous period in her life. Invited by her friend Katharine Woolley, wife of renowned British archaeologist Leonard W...

Mariana, a student from Venezuela, arrives in France to study French language, history and culture. The Palace of Versailles is her first visit and she discovers the story of Queen Marie-Antoinette.