Regina Assini. Rose rosse per il commissario (+ Audio CD) A telephone number on a fifty-euro banknote, a bunch of red roses, a suspicious florist. All apparently commonplace things, which could go unobserved by anybody... but not the eyes of the attentive and alert Grandini, a retired police commissioner. Is the telephone number a cry for help, or does the...

Lewis Carrol. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (+ CD-ROM) Follow Alice down the rabbit hole and into Wonderland, where her adventures never stop. Join her as she attends the Mad Hatter’s tea party, talks to a very unusual caterpillar and plays croquet with the Queen of Hearts. Along the way you’ll meet characters you could only dream of: from a disappearin...

R. Boutegege. La Fugue de Bach (+ Audio CD) The curtain rises and the audience is shocked to discover that the prima ballerina has suddenly disappeared. Will police commissioner Morand, accompanied by the music of Bach, be able to solve the mystery?...

Prosper Merimee. Carmen - De la novela al libreto (+ Audio CD) A story of love and death which retells the tragic relationship between a gypsy, Carmen, and a soldier, Brigadier Don José, which turns Carmen into a smuggler, outlaw and murderer. This story was the inspiration for the famous opera by Georges Bizet, a ballet by Roland Petit and there are also ...

Miguel de Cervantes. La Española inglesa (Nueva Edicion) (+ Audio CD) A seven-year-old girl is kidnapped by the English during a naval raid on the port of Cadiz and is taken to London. A few years later Isabela is a beautiful and virtuous girl who is capable of overcoming the endless ups and downs to find love, even a conspiracy in the court…...

Prosper Merimee. Carmen - De la nouvelle au livret (+ Audio CD) A story of love and death which retells the tragic relationship between a gypsy, Carmen, and a soldier, Brigadier Don José, which turns Carmen into a smuggler, outlaw and murderer. This story was the inspiration for the famous opera by Georges Bizet and a ballet by Roland Petit....

Don Juan Manuel. El Conde Lucanor (+ Audio CD) "El conde Lucanor" is a collection of short stories with a moralistic theme, in which Patronio, the Count’s advisor, offers his advice on the issues provoked by each event being told. The stories, which feature farmers, courtiers and beggars as the lead characters, offer an insight into the lifestyl...

Edgar Allan Poe. Double assassinat dans la Rue Morgue et La lettre volée (+ Audio CD) Two cases of detection for Monsieur Auguste C. Dupin, Poe’s great detective. Who could have committed the atrocious murders in the Rue Morgue and so how did the murderer get in, or out? Will Dupin find the purloined letter and save the royal personage? Where is the minister hiding it?...

Victor Hugo. Les Misérables (+ Audio CD) After nineteen years in prison for having stolen some bread, Jean Valjean, thanks to his meeting with the bishop of Digne, Monsignor Myriel, decides to dedicate the rest of his life to doing good. Some years later, he becomes the Mayor of Montreuil-sur-Mer under the name of Monsieur Madeleine. Unfor...

Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray (+ Audio CD) The publication in 1890 of Wilde's only novel led to a furious public debate over art and morality. Dorian Gray's double life in elegant high society and in London's most degraded slums express the essence of aestheticism and fin de siècle decadence and shows up the hypocrisies of Victorian soc...