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On the eve of his wedding, a young man discovers the identity of his father...

La primera novela de Mariana Enriquez: tres adolescentes se asoman al abismo de las drogas, la destrucción y el amor.

" Ich habe beschlossen, heute glücklich zu sein. "

Ambientado no Norte de Portugal, sobretudo na cidade do Porto, Daqui a Nada é um romance a três vozes a partir das quais nos chega a história de uma família devastada.

Shortlisted for the Booker Russian Novel Prize and winner of the prestigious Medici Prize for foreign fiction in France and the Penne Prize in Italy.

Un romanzo d'amore e di disillusione, che raffigura una generazione, quella dei trentenni, cresciuta nel benessere e nell'individualismo.

"C'est LE livre du début 2022." QUOTIDIEN.

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Adapted classics for students of Italian

A selection of well-known short stories from one of the most acclaimed authors of Italian literature.

£10.75

Easy-to-read extracts with accompanying exercises introduce Moravia's literary works, exploring Fascism and the morality of Italian society at the time.

£10.50 £5.25

In a busy, polluted city, a working man struggles to make ends meet, desperately seeking out nature everywhere he goes.

£11.95

A beautifully illustrated selection of adapted short stories from the Decameron, with guided activities for comprehension.

£8.85 £4.43

17th century Milan, amidst wars and plague, sets the scene for this classic love story and the first major novel in Italian literature.

£11.95

A masterpiece of 20th century literature that recounts the tragicomic story of a man retracing the moments of his life.

£10.75

Extracts of Buzzati's classic Italian tales, with exercises and audio tracks for advanced students of Italian.

£10.50

This classic Italian comedy follows the feud between a hot-headed Catholic priest and the communist Mayor of a post-war, provincial town.

£11.95 £5.98

A beautifully illustrated adaptation in prose of Dante's Divine Comedy, with guided activities for comprehension.

£9.95

A love story of the doomed relationship between a young ex-partisan and his fiancée in post-war Italy.

£11.95 £5.98

A comic tale and masterpiece of 16th century Italian literature, in which everyone is searching for happiness at somebody else's expence.

£10.75 £5.38

Selected, adapted passages by one of the greatest Italian writers.

£10.50

A tale of love, murder, flight and pursuit in the beautiful Sardinian landscape; and of one woman's sacrifice.

£11.50 £5.75

18th century Florence. A theatrical comedy that tells of unrequited love, rivalry, misogyny and a strong, intelligent woman.

£11.95 £5.98

Seven charming short stories about the people of Rome, from all works of life.

£11.95 £5.98

Classic German literature

"Jugend ohne Gott" gilt als das bedeutendste Werk von Horvaths. Hintergrund des Romans ist die Charakter-, Gedanken- und Lieblosigkeit der Jugend im Dritten Reich.

£7.00 £3.50

Das kurze sommerliche Glück einer grosßen Liebe.

£9.40

Berlin 1940 and the city is filled with fear...

£12.75 £6.38

Kafka's most famous work.

£11.95 £5.98

The story of Edgar W's short life, his rebellion against the rules of communism and the love that is out of his reach.

£8.55

Entertainer Hans Schneir re-examines his life after his fianceé leaves him.

£11.95

Die Geschichte eines Entwurzelten, der keine Heimat mehr finden kann.

£11.50

In der 1920er Jahre, Gilgi macht sich auf den Weg in die Selbstständigkeit.

£11.95

Arriving at an illicit rendezvous, Hans finds his father taking revenge for past crimes.

£13.50

Eine Erzählung aus der Zeit der systematischen Verfolgung der Juden im Dritten Reich.

£15.75 £7.88

Ein Mord, ein Verdächtiger und Fräulein von Scuderi - Dichterin und Ermittlerin.

£3.10 £1.55

Ein Aussenseiter wird zum Mörder.

£3.80 £1.90

Der Werther war wohl der erste europäische Bestseller der deutschen Literatur.

£4.85 £2.43

An old man looks back on his life and remembers Elizabeth - the only woman he ever loved...

£4.30 £2.15

Two examples of von Kleist's short stories.

£3.25 £1.63

Erich Kästners Meisterwerk.

£12.75 £6.38

Eine Auseinandersetzung mit den Jahren der deutschen Teilung. Rita musß eine Entscheidung treffen, die sie in eine tiefe Krise stürzt.

£16.75

In a small town on the sea six people meet. They are united by the wish to leave Germany!

£13.75

"Fundbüro" ist ein einnehmender, wunderbar erzählter Roman voll menschlicher Anteilnahme und liebenswertem Witz.

£26.75 £13.38

Ein Roman mit autobiographischen Zügen über die erste Liebe.

£7.85 £3.93

Das wahrscheinlich bedeutendste und wieder bestürzend aktuell gewordene Werk des expressionistischen Autors Ernst Toller.

£9.25

Eine Eheroman.

£13.50

Ein Schachspiel gefährdet Dr B's Gesundheit.

£13.50

A story of obsession.

£11.95 £5.98

Anhand von zeitgenössischen Dokumenten erzählt Heym die Geschehnisse um den 17. Juni 1953. Ein packender Zeitroman, der als das bekannteste Werk des grosßen Schriftstellers gilt.

£11.50

Clássicos da literatura infantil

Desde o início do século XIX que os Irma+os Grimm alimentam a imaginacça+o de miúdos e graúdos de todo o mundo e hà sempre algo de novo a aprender com cada personagem!

By Brüder Grimm

£16.95

É sabido que, apesar de essenciais, raras vezes os conselhos sa+o bem aceites e apreendidos pelos mais jovens; mas se chegarem cobertos do acçúcar de uma história, jà o resultado normalmente é outro.

By António Torrado

£21.75 £10.88

Uma iniciacça+o à leitura perfeita para os mais pequenos e uma forma emocionante de lerem os clàssicos de Enid Blyton.

By Enid Blyton

£13.75 £6.88

E se as histórias para criancças passassem a ser de leitura obrigatória para os adultos? Seriam eles capazes de aprender realmente o que hà tanto tempo têm andado a ensinar?

By José Saramago

£19.95

Uma catadupa de situacções caricatas de "teatro dentro do teatro", com base numa ideia simples (bebida no escritor francês Scribe) que é um achado em termos de comédia.

By Almeida Garrett

£20.95 £10.48

Este livro apresenta a vida deste poeta genial, utilizando uma linguagem simples e apontando apenas os marcos fundamentais dos 47 anos que viveu.

By Manuela Júdice

£21.50 £10.75

Baseado num episódio da vida de um dos filhos de Luis Sepúlveda, a História de um gato e de um rato que se tornaram amigos oferece-nos uma vez mais uma fàbula singela e divertida sobre o verdadeiro valor da amizade.

£14.75

Outra história com a personagem mais famosa da popular autora britânica, numa réplica cuidada da edicça+o original de 1904.

By Beatrix Potter

£10.95 £5.48

Um dos clàssicos contemporâneos, com o design inovador e as brilhantes ilustracções que têm o cunho inconfundível de Eric Carle.

By Eric Carle

£9.95

O novo Astérix esta aqui!

By Jean-Yves Ferri, Didier Conrad

£14.75

New French literature

On the eve of his wedding, a young man discovers the identity of his father...

£10.50

A parisian writer comes to Britanny to write a story about the ancestors of a young local woman.

£10.95

Half novel, half essay, La vie ordinaire ponders everyday life...

£10.50

£10.95 £5.48

Anouk leaves her life in Montreal and sets off for the Canadian wild to live off the grid, but her solitary life will be shortlived...

£9.60

Four teenagers, living a life cut off from the world, away in the mountains.

£11.75

A writer struggles to find inspiration... and decides to write the story of the first person he meets in the street.

£12.50

In Brussels, a young woman is hired by a wealthy man to help his dyslexic son fall in love with reading.

£9.85

Two ex-lovers find each other after thirty years apart...

£8.95

A man receives a call from his estranged younger brother who is at the hospital...

£9.95

Classic literature in Russian translation

Pride and Prejudice and Northanger Abbey.

By Jane Austen

£14.50 £7.25

By Haruki Murakami

£7.00 £3.50

The much-anticipated novel of 2021 from the Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun explores the eternal question of what it means to love.

By Kazuo Ishiguro

£17.95

By Haruki Murakami

£7.85 £3.93

The Hound of the Baskervilles.

By Arthur Conan Doyle

£8.10 £4.05

Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome.

By Jerome K Jerome

£6.85 £3.43

A portrait painter in Tokyo is abandoned by his wife and finds himself holed up in the mountain home of a famous artist, Tomohiko Amada...

By Haruki Murakami

£14.50

Other Voices, Other Rooms. Truman Capote's semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel.

By Truman Capote

£11.50 £5.75

'Un roman franÃ§ais' - an autobiographical novel written by Frederic Beigbeder.

By Frédéric Beigbeder

£6.60 £3.30

Jane Eyre - One of the greatest gothic love stories of all time.

By Charlotte Brontë

£8.70 £4.35

By Frédéric Beigbeder

£6.60 £3.30

Anglijskij vrach i pisatel ser Artur Konan Dojl izvesten vsemu miru kak neprevzojdennyj master detektivnogo zhanra, avtor mnozhestva proizvedenij o genialnom syschike Sherloke Kholmse i ego vernom druge doktore Vatsone.

By Arthur Conan Doyle

£19.50 £9.75

Hans Christian Anderson's "The Snow Queen".

By Hans Christian Andersen

£8.60 £4.30

Breakfast at Tiffany's is Truman Capote's timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly.

By Truman Capote

£8.70

The Winter's Tale - a romantic comedy by Shakespeare.

By William Shakespeare

£7.65 £3.83

La letteratura italiana per studenti stranieri

A student's guide to Dante's Inferno, with both original and simplified extracts and notes to aid understanding and appreciation.

£24.95 £12.48

Uno sguardo sull'Italia attraverso i testi letterari.

£20.95

A history of Italian literature, from the 13th century to the present day, as well as art, music and cinema for advanced students of Italian.

£23.95

Extracts of classic Italian literature with language-based activities for post-beginners, intermediate and advanced students of Italian.

£17.95 £8.98

A fascinating guided tour through 800 years of Italian literature, for advanced level students of Italian (CEFR B2-C2).

£25.95

Develop your language skills at intermediate level through authentic literary extracts from celebrated Italian authors.

£14.95 £7.48

Italian Literature from its origins to the present day, the key protagonists, the masterpieces and literary trends, in just 32 pages.

£8.70

Enrich your Italian vocabulary and develop cultural reflection through the study of literary works.

£15.75 £7.88

Angel Classics - German literature in English translation

The story of an ex-prisoner told after his death and the search for the meaning of an inscription on a portrait.

£11.95

A delightful account of a journey around Scotland with the artist Bernhard von Lepel.

£17.95

A collection of four stories by Adalbert Stifter.

£6.95

A story of mutual sexual attraction at a fashionable spa moves to a grim climax among the high-society fringe of Berlin

£9.95

Four of Theodor Storm's novellas: Carsten The Trustee, The Swallows of St George, The Last Farmstead and By the Fireside.

£11.95

A brilliantly funny read. Heine comments on the homeland he sees again after years of exile.

£11.95

The story of a noble family's conflict and downfall during the wars that swept northern Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries.

£9.95

Three novellas: Hans and Heinz Kirch, Immensee and Joruney to Hallig.

£8.50

Goethe's version of the Iphigenia-Orestes legend.

£9.95

Three of Storm's works in one volume: Paul the Puppeteer, The Village on the Moor and Renate.

£9.95

This selection of his poems and prose pieces is the most comprehensive edition available to the English-language reader.

£17.95

The fullest selection of Heym's verse to appear in English.

£12.95

13 short stories including comic tales, dense novellas and the dramatic tale of The Duellist's Second.

£10.95

A selection of stories that capture the restless spirit of turn-of-the-century Vienna.

£9.95

Russian/English bilingual readers

The perfect introduction to the grimly hysterical world of writer Charles Bukowski.

By Charles Bukowski

£10.50 £5.25

Mysterious millionaire Gatsby's life is dominated by his obsession to reunitte with a former lover.

By F Scott Fitzgerald

£10.50

Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a disgraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.

By John Fowles

£9.55 £4.78

This is an unadapted text of the novel "Blackberry Winter" by Sarah Jio as well as the Russian translation of the text.

By Sarah Jio

£18.95 £9.48

A romantic and suspenseful tale about two women whose destiny is bound across the years.

By Sarah Jio

£15.50 £7.75

In this next Chronicle, Shasta is on the run from his homeland with Bree, the talking horse.

By C S Lewis

£15.95 £7.98

The intrepid Edmund and Lucy return to Narnia to search for their friends.

By C S Lewis

£15.95 £7.98

The Silver Chair - Drawn back to Narnia, Eustace Scrubb and his new friend Jill Pole are sent to rescue a captive prince.

By C S Lewis

£15.95 £7.98

Literature guides for learners of Spanish

A comprehensive course exploring Spanish literature through the ages, from the medieval period up to the present day. Suitable for intermediate/advanced learners.

£30.50