Collection: Language Learning Fiction

Much maligned in pre-war Germany, the short story enjoyed a creative rebirth in 1945. Initially imported by the Allies, the form also matched perfectly the prevailing mood of irony, objectivity and mistrust of the didactic. With the original German text running alongside English translations, thi...

The eight stories in this volume offer a varied and representative collection of twentieth century German authors from a range of political and cultural backgrounds. Styles include the non-fictional manner of Kluge's montage technique and the contrasting classical storytelling of Penzoldt. With r...

Etienne, a railway engineer from Lille, is fired for having slapped his boss. After wandering for eight days in the North, he was hired in the mines of Montsou. There he meets the Maheu, a family of miners and falls in love with Catherine, their daughter who shares his feelings. But a brutal work...

After the death of their mother, Ginevra and Celeste tried to recover their relationship, but too many misunderstandings linked to a never forgotten past have distanced them to the point of making them feel like strangers.

Olga, literary translator, wife and mother of two is suddenly abandoned by her husband for a younger woman. With this she enters into a painful lapse that turns into despair that brings her to sleep and food deprivation. She encounters a neighbour musician that moves something in her. After a des...

An incredible journey through Italian cities and places, which will forever change the lives of the two protagonists, Nadia and Roberto. Between love, adventure and.. science fiction.

La bella gitana Preciosa provoca la admiración de cuantos la ven bailar y decir la buenaventura por el Madrid de principios del siglo XVII. Un gallardo gentilhombre decide hacerse gitano y convivir con los gitanos para merecer su amor. Este libro de texto y su disco compacto son diseñados para el...

There is an unwritten law that says that "the duty of every prisoner is to escape." An obligation that forty-nine political prisoners of the Pinochet dictatorship fulfilled to the letter in 1990, drilling a tunnel of almost one hundred meters in the floor of the high-security prison in which they...

In the heat of a Greek island, a man hides to escape his pursuers. He talks about his extraordinary life and tries to unravel the skein of his destiny. Son of a modest furrier, he became the richest man in France. His name is Jacques Coeur.

Henri Dunant, Marie Curie, Georges Méliès, Alexandra David-Néel, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Gabrielle Chanel, Lilian Thuram, Marjane Satrapi. Eight portraits of remarkable men and women from the Francophone world. The individuals that feature in this collection may have had very different starts in l...