Collection: Language Learning Fiction

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...

"The readings included have been specially written for heritage students in their second and third semesters or non-heritage students in their third and fourth semesters of study. Students are exposed to interesting cultural topics while expanding their active vocabulary and developing reading an...

"Le 2 novembre 2020, Caroline Darian reçoit un appel de la police de Carpentras. Son père est en garde à vue. La saisie de son matériel informatique révèle l’impensable : depuis 2013, il drogue sa femme avant de la livrer, inconsciente, à des hommes, de tous les horizons et sans contrepartie. Car...

Four years before the legalization of the contraceptive pill and twelve years before the Veil Law, this autobiographical account describes the obstacle course of a young student to have an abortion.

"Classic tales of ritual suicide, decadence and geisha romance by Japan's greatest 20th-century novelists".

An ant who refuses to help out a grasshopper, a giant oak tree that taunts a reed for its frailty, a farmer who leaves his children a priceless treasure, a young girl who dreams of a bright future. Through these characters, Jean de La Fontaine teaches us life lessons that we sometimes need to learn.

La Fontaine's fables offer vivid perspectives on such elemental subjects as greed and flattery, envy and avarice, love and friendship, old age and death.

"Full texts of great arias in the original Italian and a new English translation"--Cover.

One evening Faust invites friends to dine at his home. In front of their terrified faces he raises his glass in a toast and says, -Friends, tonight the devil will come and take me away.? Here is the mystery of the extraordinary life of a man who made magic, discovered the secrets of alchemy and a...