Collection: Language Learning Fiction

In the 1860s, a style of painting emerged in Paris which fundamentally called into question the artistic concepts that had been prevalent in academies up to that time. Impressionist artists such as Monet, Renoir and Degas now focused on their impression of the moment, which was captured in painti...

Guillermo and Lucia, fifteen-year-olds who live in Madrid, are the best of friends. One day, while they are awaiting a friend to go to the movies, they encounter a mystery. This graded reader, complete with audio, exercises, and answers, is an engaging tool for self-study and developing reading ...

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...

An anthology of 34 Italian poems spanning seven centuries, presented with facing‑page English translations and enriched with biographical and critical notes on poets from Saint Francis and Dante to Michelangelo and Quasimodo.

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.