Collection: Language Learning Fiction

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.

Stephane Hessel, Resistance fighter and concentration-camp survivor, tells the young of today that their lives and liberties are worth fighting for.

A series of original fiction and adaptations of international stories for learners of French. All the stories look at topics relevant to teenagers and the accompanying audio-CD retells the story in a lively and attractive way. Vocabulary explanations are included in the footnotes and an answer ke...

A nine-year-old boy named Michele Amitrano (Giuseppe Cristiano) and a group of his friends set out across scorched wheat fields in a race. Michele's sister tags along but falls, breaking her glasses, and calls out to Michele, who runs back to her.

"This second volume of Italian Short Stories, with its parallel translations aims -as the first volume did -to exemplify the richness and variety of Italian writing of the twentieth century. In this volume, however, some of the language used is a little more advanced and the translations slightly...

Scope and content: "The eight stories in this collection, by Moravia, Pavese, Pratolini and other modern writers, have been selected as representative of contemporary Italian writing." -back cover.

Eleven great stories in original Italian with vivid, accurate English translations on facing pages, teaching and practice aids, Italian-English vocabulary, more. Chronologically arranged stories by Boccaccio, Machiavelli, d'Annunzio, Pirandello and Moravia, plus significant works by lesser-knowns.

Dal fondatore di Emergency Gino Strada, al danzatore Roberto Bolle, dalla campionessa paralimpica Bebe Vio all’astronauta Samantha Cristoforetti, dieci uomini e donne che hanno reso grande il nome dell’Italia nel mondo. Conosciamo insieme la vita, gli ideali, la profonda umanità e la straordinari...

Selected adapted stories from Il giardino incantato, Il visconte dimezzato, Il barone rampante, Il cavaliere inesistente, Il castello dei destini incrociati, Le città invisibili, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore, Gli amori difficili, Marcovaldo, and Palomar.