The war of Troy has finished and Ulisse leaves to return home, to Itaca. It proves to be a very long journey during which the hero has to deal with many kinds of danger and threat: giants with only one ear, beautiful women who enchant sailors... One of the most famous stories in the world, told in a language which is simple but at the same time faithful to the original. A passionate and moving story about a man who fights against fate and who wins in the end thanks to his courage and intelligence. A series of comprehension activities, activities to study the characters in more detail and dossiers about the author and the places, accompany the text.

Seventeenth century Milan, dominated by the Spanish and torn apart by a terrible epidemic creates the basis for Renzo and Lucia’s love story. Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece has been shortened without losing the fascinating rhythm of the original work. At the end of each chapter, numerous activities offer readers the chance to test their comprehension of the text but also to reflect on a story in Italian. The cultural studies dossiers provide valuable information and facts about Milan in the past and the present.

El Cantar de Mio Cid is the oldest-known text in Spanish literature and it narrates part of the life of Cid, an epic hero. Exiled unjustifiably by King Don Alfonso, Cid, with a group of followers, fights to regain his honour against the Moors and against anyone who is plotting against him. Cid’s disgrace turns into triumph, and his misery into power, eventually leading to the conquest of Valencia from the Muslims.

A silent, dark house. Suffocating heat, church bells which ring to toll for the dead and terrible secrets. A closed space, rigorously guarded by Bernarda Alba, which is home to her five daughters, some servants and an elderly, insane mother Despite all of this, love enters the house, but then a tragedy also happens…

The adventures of four teenagers dealing with everyday problems: school, family, friendship, love... and also a great passion for music, which leads them to form a complex pop group as they also decide to enter a music competition. After months of trials and hardships, they finally perform in front of a public audience for the first time. This experience providing an exciting finale...

Just as every year, Belinda de Orgaz travels to the old family home in the Pyrenees to celebrate her birthday. Friends and relatives gather to spend a pleasant weekend. But suddenly one of the guests falls ill... and a few hours later is found dead in his room. What happened? How did he die?

Considered to be the first realistic story coming from the Río de la Plata, El matadero describes Argentinean society in the first decade of the 19th century. Set in the area near Buenos Aires during Lent, the story starts during a heavy downpour, which makes the use of the slaughter house – the main business of the town – impossible, and thus creates a crisis in the town. In this story, Echeverría offers a critical insight into society at that time and its principal institutions: state and church.

One of the major works of the Spanish theatre, a tyrannical nobleman violent with his subjects and a popular uprising that culminated in a just revenge. Women with great personalities, the strength of the people against the tyranny and a crime forgiven by the royal family makes Fuente Ovejuna a legendary work.

Robert Louis Stevenson investigates into the nature of good and evil in this novel set in the Scotland of 1745. This was the year many in Scotland fought to put a Scottish king on the British throne. Two brothers, James and Henry Durie, become involved in this historical event. But The Master of Ballantrae is a also worldwide novel. Readers will travel from Scotland to New York, to India… Along the way, they will meet soldiers, hunters and pirates.

There has been a UFO sighting in the Cascade mountains near Seattle, Washington, and everyone is excited. But no one believes there could possibly be an alien in town, until Karen, Barbara and Walter notice that one of the teachers at their high school is behaving very strangely. Karen and her friends start investigating on their own and are very surprised by what they discover...

A Christmas Carol is the first and the most famous of the five books that Dickens wrote to celebrate the spiritual values of Christmas.

Daisy Miller is a beautiful, rich American girl. She comes to Europe with her mother and brother to travel and see the sights. In Switzerland she meets Frederick Winterbourne, a young American who has lived in Europe most of his life. He is fascinated and perplexed by Daisy’s flirtatious and unconventional manners…

Mary Shelley was not yet twenty years old when she wrote this classic tale of a scientist’s attempt to create a new noble species – an experiment which instead produces a monster. Frankenstein is here presented in the 2nd, revised edition of 1831 and includes an analysis of the most recent criticism on Shelley’s science fiction masterpiece, as well as an extensive filmography.

Fitzgerald's glittering Jazz Age masterpiece. Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. The Great Gatsby is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.

Kim, a young Irish boy, lives alone on the streets of the Indian city of Lahore. He meets an old Tibetan lama who is looking for a sacred river. The boy and the old man become great friends and travel across British India. This is Rudyard Kipling's greatest book — a story about the British empire, spies, friendship, spirituality and, most of all, India.

What really happened on board the famous ship, the Bounty? Why did the sailors mutiny against their captain, and where did they take the ship? How did the captain and his loyal crew survive a 5,000 mile journey? Join Captain Bligh, Fletcher Christian and Tom on their incredible adventures at sea, and discover what the Bounty mutiny was really about.

Catherine Morland is going on her first visit to the city of Bath. She is seventeen and comes from a small, quiet town in the English countryside. She likes Gothic novels. When she makes friends with the handsome young Henry Tilney and his sister Eleanor, she will find herself in the middle of a family tragedy. Henry’s home, Northanger Abbey, is the scene of a crime. Or is it all just a product of Catherine’s imagination?

Rudolf Rassendyll comes from an ancient English family that has had a romantic connection with the royal household of Ruritania. He decides to visit Ruritania and is rapidly caught up in the political events of the country...