Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey that begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, that wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways, and that ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Funny, wild, and sweet, Trout Fishing in America is an incomparable guidebook to the delights of exploration.

It is the late 1920's, the era of Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbergh, and Al Capone, and Walt is a Saint Louis orphan rescued from the streets by the mysterious Hungarian Master Yehudi, who teaches Walt to walk on air. The vaudeville act that results from Walt's marvelous new abiltiy takes them across a vast and vibrant country, where they meet and fall prey to sinners, thieves, and villains, from the Kansas Ku Klux Klan to the Chicago mob.

When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the life that led to Sachs' tragic demise and determine the reason for his death.

一切無駄のない、整えられた美しい文体が特徴の中島敦。 彼の作品は、漢文調の格調高い端正な文体とユーモラスに語る独特の文体とが巧みに使い分けられています。 学生の頃に「山月記」を読まれた方も

Fueled by a powerful curiosity - and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up - Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling - swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels - an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world.

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card."

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

明治期の文学者、夏目漱石の長編小説。

初出は「東京朝日新聞」「大阪朝日新聞」［1907（明治40）年］。1907年、漱石は小説家として生きる決意を固め、東京帝国大学を辞職して朝日新聞社に入社した。この作品は入社後はじめての新聞連載小説。誇り高い自我を持つヒロイン藤尾は親の決めた相手ではない男と結婚しようとするが、義理の兄が道義を守らせるために画策する。誇りを傷つけられた藤尾は自殺する。藤尾に象徴される近代文明を批判した作品とされるが、「悪」としての藤尾の人気は連載当時から高く、虞美人草ドレスという商品まで現れる社会現象となった。

日本のジャズレコードやライブの多くを占めるピアノトリオ。バンドのリズムセクションが独立して成立した比較的新しい演奏編成とはいえ、モダンジャズの入り口でもある。

『哲学探究』を、ひとりでよんでいくのはとても骨がおれる。言語ゲームとは何か…後期ウィトゲンシュタインの代表作『哲学探究』をわかりやすく読み解く。

紀元前から現代まで人々を苦しめてきた病「がん」。古代エジプトの医師は「治療法はない」と述べ、一九世紀の外科医は「あらゆる病の皇帝」と怖れた。ピュリッツァー賞ほか各賞を総なめにした傑作。

アダム・スミスが研究に勤しむ間、身の周りの世話をしたのは誰! ? 女性不在で欠陥だらけの経済神話を終わらせ、新たな社会を志向する、スウェーデン発、21世紀の経済本。う

何もしなくても「手数料」を得られるシステムを構築した国家が覇権を握る。出アフリカから現代までの「プラットフォーム」経済全史。

Breakfast of Champions (1973) provides frantic, scattershot satire and a collage of Vonnegut's obsessions. His recurring cast of characters and American landscape was perhaps the most controversial of his canon; it was felt by many at the time to be a disappointing successor to Slaughterhouse-Five, which had made Vonnegut's literary reputation.