美しい、本物の貴族であるお母さまは病んで死に向かいつつある。弟の直治は出征し、無事南方から戻ったものの心は荒んでいく。かず子は新しい時代を生きるべく、自分なりのたくましさを身につけていく…… 演出=水城雄。(C)アイ文庫 【演出・朗読者について】 若さに似合わない落ち着きと品のある読みがこの作品にぴったり、と抜擢された澤田雅世。同性の一人語り文体、しかも語り手と同世代という、(一見あっていると思われがちですが)読み手としては最も難しい条件に、果敢に挑戦しました。聴けばおわかりのように、初の長編朗読とは思えない、物憂げでニュアンス豊かな斜陽的世界を描きだすことに成功しています。 「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

ここは天の国。天の主と三人の大天使のもとへ、ゆうわくの悪魔がやってきました。彼の名前はメフィストフェレス。強い魔力を持ち、冗談とウソとかけごとを愛し、いつも人間をからかってばかりいます。

The Trial tells the story of a man arrested for an unknown crime by a remote, inaccessible authority and his struggle for control over the increasing absurdity of his life. One of Franz Kafka's best-known works, The Trial has been variously interpreted as an examination of political power, a satirical depiction of bureaucracy, and a pessimistic religious parable. Left unfinished at the time of Kafka's 1924 death, The Trial is nevertheless a trenchant depiction of the seemingly incomprehensible nature of existence....

"Philosophy is not a theory," asserted Austro-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), "but an activity." In this 1921 opus, his only philosophical work published during his lifetime, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.