Collection: Language Learning Fiction

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.

Anna was born in Naples but now lives in Vancouver, where her parents run several busy pizzerias. One day they suggest she travel alone to Naples to visit her grandparents, her first solo trip. Anna is thrilled: she’ll reconnect with her family, rediscover the city of her birth, and take plenty o...

He is Andrea, living in Como and studying German; she is Simone, from Stuttgart and studying Italian. To practise the language, they begin an email exchange, but Andrea thinks he is writing to another boy, while Simone believes she has found an Italian girl as a pen‑friend. When they decide to me...

A collection of mini-detective stories starring Sara Corelli and her assistant Pippo Caraffa. Each story offers a final quiz for the student who has the task of finding the solution to the case.

Having escaped from the Chateau d'If, Edmond Dantès settles in Paris, under the mysterious name of the Count of Monte-Cristo.

Wrongly imprisoned for a crime he did not commit, the young sailor Edmond Dantès escapes from prison and discovers a hidden treasure on the island of Monte Cristo. Assuming the identity of the Count of Monte Cristo, he sets out to reward those who helped him and seek revenge on those who betrayed...