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In Anton Chekhov’s haunting short story Gooseberries, a rain-soaked evening in the Russian countryside becomes the backdrop for a quietly devastating tale of comfort, delusion, and moral awakening.

An alarming telephone call, in which the phrases “it’s life and death” and “the table with the yellow irises” are whispered, causes Hercule Poirot to rush to the luxuriant restaurant Jardin des Cygnes, desperate to stop an impending murder and find the person behind the voice on the...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】質屋を通して戦前の日本社会の経済格差や庶民の生活苦が描く体験記。

Brilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among Chinese Americans in the United States. In this rich, astonishing collection, Yiyun Li illuminates how mythology, politics, history, and culture...

The Mystery of the Blue Train In this official authorized edition featuring exclusive content from the Queen of Mystery, robbery and brutal murder aboard a luxury transport ensnares the ever-attentive Hercule Poirot. When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene...

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】日本橋の本屋の若主人・新蔵と女中のお敏は互いに思い合っていたが、ある日、お敏は突然姿を消す。

Featured in the Netflix series Love, Death & Robots Bestselling author Ken Liu selects his multiple award-winning stories for a groundbreaking collection—including a brand-new piece exclusive to this volume. With his debut novel, The Grace of Kings, taking the literary world by storm, Ken Liu...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

争議団（労働組合）と対立する職長利平は、争議団員に頭を割られ、自宅で療養をしていた。妻のお初は争議団を恐れ、親類の家へ避難するよう勧めるが、利平は会社の信任を負う職長として逃げることを拒否する。利平は争議団員の川村について思いを巡らせる。かつて自分が親切にしていた子飼いの弟子が、今や自分に反旗を翻し頭を割るまでに至ったのである。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】二十余年前の春、第一高等学校に通う兄と女学校生の妹が、東京郊外の道を歩いている。二人は電車を避け、わざと春の武蔵野を楽しんでいた。

Real English-speaking people don’t speak like your textbook…so it’s no wonder you feel unprepared when it’s your turn to speak! Try the StoryLearning method, and dive into a real-world, gripping drama between six characters that helps you learn authentic spoken English in the process.

It’s a New Jersey summer in 1967, and thirteen-year-old Ravi Ramanathan has the makings of a tennis prodigy. His surgeon father encourages his ambition, while his mother dreams of their only child following his father’s path. Surrounded by his parents’ love, Ravi chafes a bit at their daily routines and little traditions. Then one unexpected day, everything changes. Realizing how much he took for granted, Ravi must grow up overnight and find a new role in the life of his family.

Todos los cuentos de Borges reunidos en un audiolibro

Poeta, ensayista y narrador, Borges es una de las figuras primordiales de la literatura universal. Ahora se reúnen en este audiolibro todos sus cuentos, uno de los legados más influyentes y deslumbrantes de la literatura occidental.

Poirot Investigates a host of murders most foul—as well as other dastardly crimes—in this intriguing collection of short stories from the one-and-only Agatha Christie. First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond . . . then came the “suicide” that was murder . . . the...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

川波航空大尉、星宮理学士、大蘆原軍医の三人は、航空試験所の実験室で深夜にわたり協同実験に取り組んでいた。彼らは退屈しのぎに交替でこの場限りの秘話を始めることに。川波大尉は大演習中に起きた戦闘機の空中衝突事件の真相を語りだす。戦死した二人の中尉、竹花と熊内は元々仲が良かったが、Aという女をめぐってお互い悪辣な手段で陥れ合っていた。

From one of China’s most famous contemporary writers, who celebrated novel To Live catapulted him to international fame, here is a stunning collection of stories, selected from the best of Yu Hua’s early work, that shows his far-reaching influence on a pivotal period in Chinese literature...

男の顔を見た瞬間、私の頭の中で小さな爆発が起きた――！　ムサシ、ポチ、ジョーら犬たちは近所の怪しい男との間に、（なぜか昔話風味の）前世からの因縁があったことを思い出す。

When Lord Edgware Dies a most unnatural death, detective Hercule Poirot must solve a most confounding conundrum: if the obvious killer, the slain peer’s spiteful wife, didn’t do it, who did? A classic from the queen of mystery, Agatha Christie. When Lord Edgware is found murdered the police...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ベルギーにある科学研究所で、モール博士は人造人間の設計図を二本の黒い筒に分けて、弟子の千吉とハンスに預ける。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

「文芸復興の可能性は純文学にして通俗小説にある」という主張を展開する評論。横光は、現在の文学には純文学、芸術文学、純粋小説、大衆文学、通俗小説という五つの概念があるとし、最も高級な文学は純粋小説だと位置づける。しかし、日本の文壇には純粋文学と呼べるものがほとんど一つも現れていない、とも主張する。