Collection: Language Learning Fiction

Richard Lafargue is an eminent plastic surgeon haunted by dirty secrets. He has an operating theatre in the basement of his chateau and keeps his partner Eve imprisoned in her bedroom, a room he has equipped with an intercom and 300-watt speakers through which he bellows orders. Eve is only allow...

Es la noche del fin de año chino, empieza el año del cerdo. Chesca, al mando de la Brigada de Análisis de Casos desde hace un año, ha quedado con Ángel Zárate, pero en el último momento este le da plantón. Aun así, ella sale a divertirse, conoce a un hombre y pasa la noche con él. A la mañana sig...

Tina is back in her hometown Augsburg. She inherited her aunt's bakery shop. But baking is not easy and the business is not really working. Until one day Franz shows up ..

Contains 20 stories, language support boxes, cultural insights, grammatical explanations, and English translations.

The nine sons of the Dragon King all have different strengths and skills and they can make themselves useful in different ways. The stories show us that all children, even when they have the same parents, may be different too.

A collection of short readers enriched by colour illustrations, notes on vocabulary and interspersed with a variety of comprehension activities and exercises. The accompanying audio material offers a reading of the entire story as well as some listening exercises, as detailed in the books. With d...

Paris au Moyen Âge. La jeune bohémienne Esmeralda, accusée de meurtre et de sorcellerie, doit être pendue. Mais dans l'ombre des tours de la cathédrale Notre-Dame, Quasimodo veille.

Nouvelles Mythologies is a collection of 57 texts written by authors, journalists and editorialists under the direction of Jérôme Garcin and published in 2007 at Éditions du Seuil to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the publication of the essay Mythologies by Roland Barthes.

"En Madrid se mata poco", le decía al joven subinspector Ángel Zárate su mentor en la policía; "pero cuando se mata, no tiene nada que envidiarle a ninguna ciudad del mundo", podría añadir la inspectora Elena Blanco, jefa de la Brigada de Análisis de Casos, un departamento creado para resolver lo...

Les Aventures de Tintin is a series of comic albums created by Belgian artist Georges Remi (1907?1983), who wrote under the pen name of Hergé. The series is one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century.