Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic.

桐壺帝の寵愛を一身にうけていた更衣が若君をもうけました。 　しかし、第一皇子の母である弘微殿(こきでん)の女御(にょうご)はじめ周囲の嫉妬や怨念が激しく、それに耐えかねたのか、病に伏し、里に下がって間もなく亡くなってしまいました。 　悲しみにくれる帝は靫負(ゆげい)の命婦(みょうぶ)を更衣の母君のもとへ使わしますが、双方の嘆きは深く なるばかりです。

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Narrator Dan Stevens ( Downton Abbey) presents an uncanny performance of Mary Shelley's timeless gothic novel, an epic battle between man and monster at its greatest literary pitch. In trying to create life, the young student Victor Frankenstein unleashes forces beyond his control, setting into motion a long and tragic chain of events that brings Victor to the very brink of madness. How he tries to destroy his creation, as it destroys everything Victor loves, is a powerful story of love, friendship, scientific hubris, and horror.

個々の物語は聞いたことあるけれども？体系的にすべてを学んだことはあまりないのではないでしょうか？

A natural storyteller and raconteur in his own right - just listen to Paddle Your Own Canoe and Gumption - actor, comedian, carpenter, and all-around manly man Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) brings his distinctive baritone and a fine-tuned comic versatility to Twain's writing. In a knockout performance, he doesn't so much as read Twain's words as he does rejoice in them, delighting in the hijinks of Tom - whom he lovingly refers to as a "great scam artist" and "true American hero".