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Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him. Falsely accused of a political crime, Dantès is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If prison. But it is there that Dantès learns of a vast hidden treasure.

Our wars were behind us. Mankind was moving out from the planet of its birth. New worlds were settled, and with the wealth of the galaxy at hand, poverty was eliminated. Then, out of a clear summer sky, came the first berserker attack. This collection of short stories continues the ongoing saga of the berserker wars with “The Machinery of Lies”, “Masque of the Red Shift”, “In the Temple of Mars”, “Brother Berserker”, and “Smasher.”

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

今年三十八になる私は初めて父の墓を訪れる。二十年前、父は私と同じ年齢の時に、この九州の野で国のために死んだのだ。横手村で墓守をする老爺に官軍改修墓地まで案内され、ようやく父の墓を探し出す。父が戦死してから、祖父母も母も兄も苦痛を抱えながら死んでいった。私も絶望が絶望に続き、苦痛が苦痛に続いた。その絶望と苦痛のうちで、私は人の夫となり、人の親となった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

戦火を逃れ、東京から津軽の生家に戻った「私」は、病を抱えつつ政治活動に励む兄のもとで居候の身となる。静かな日々の中、兄は庭の草むしりを始め、庭木の手入れの話から、いつしか千利休と秀吉の話へ。兄の語りは熱を帯びていたが、聞く私は反発と敬意の間で揺れていた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

賴光が大江山の鬼を退治してから後、今度は京都の羅生門に鬼が出るという噂が立った。賴光の屋敷で平井保昌と四天王達は酒を飲んでいたが、綱が一人でその鬼を退治に行くことになる。真っ暗な中、馬に乗って羅生門の前で待っていると、愛宕山の茨木童子と名乗る鬼が現れる。鬼は綱の襟首をもって空に引き上げたが、綱は刀を抜いて鬼の腕を切り落とす。

A darkly funny short story about one woman’s reflections on the routes she’s taken through life and the detours she’s made along the way. Doubts and guilt swirl through her mind as she rides the train to her fertility appointment. Each stop stirs up introspective thoughts on her marriage, the loss of her baby, and the lover who got away—contemplations that push her ever closer to wondering if she’s made the right decisions.

For the five rock gods of Sole Regret, finding love is easy, keeping it is hard. This anthology contains the first three novellas in the One Night with Sole Regret series. In Try Me, Sole Regret's crafty drummer, Gabe "Force" Banner, seduces a straight-laced accountant before she realizes she's talking to a rock star.

The greatest short story writers strive to achieve a single, dramatic effect, a feature which the early masters of this genre perfected. Although the short story came from Europe, it was reborn in America and reached a pinnacle of superb form on these shores by the turn of the 20th century. In so many of our best writers, we hear echoes of a pioneer ethos that sustains the heart of a great literature. Here are 12 of America's best.

Twisted Tales takes us through scenes of familiar human conditions. From complete inebriation through a marriage without love via a gambling addiction ruining lives past the sometimes mean streets of Hamburg then onto to the sunshine of Thailand.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

大隈重信の演説・談話をまとめた作品。青年たちに向けた大隈の経験と人生哲学が語られる。佐賀藩の弘道館で学んでいた17歳の時に学制改革を主張して放逐された話。明治維新前夜に藩主に時勢を説く話や、明治維新後に刺客に狙われる話など。乱世での経験が語られるが、乱世でなくとも大人物になれると説く。

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So how did the murderer escape? And whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours as they ran up the stairs? Nobody in Paris could find any answers to this mystery.Except Auguste Dupin, who could see further and think more clearly than other people.

With tales from Laird Barron, Stephen King, John Langan, Peter Straub, and many others, and featuring Datlow’s comprehensive overview of the year in horror, now, more than ever, The Best Horror of the Year provides the petrifying horror fiction readers have come to expect - and enjoy.

As with most stories by Poe, there are far deeper meanings as the narrator takes us through his madness. Pluto his cat becomes a symbol of what is wrong in his, the narrator's, life. He tortures Pluto in a drunken stupor by cutting out his eye. He feels guilt for hurting a creature he once loved that also once loved him. The narrator continues to spiral into his web of self-destruction until he is penning his story the night before he will meet the same fate he imposed upon Pluto.

Written with compassionate realism and wit, the stories in this mesmerizing collection depict the disparities of town and village life in South America, of the frightfully poor and outrageously rich, of memories and illusions, and of lost opportunities and present joys. Stories include "No One Writes to the Colonel", "Tuesday Siesta", "One of These Days", "There Are No Thieves in This Town", "Balthazar's Marvelous Afternoon", "Montiel's Widow", "One Day After Saturday", "Artificial Roses", and "Big Mama's Funeral".

The grand-prize winner of a writing contest sponsored by the Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper, "The Gold-Bug" was one of Poe's most popular stories during his lifetime. Similar to his ratiocination tales - early versions of what we now call detective fiction - "The Gold-Bug" is full of mystery and adventure and includes a cryptogram, invisible ink, a scarab-like bug, and pirate treasure.

‘Give Me Your Hot Load,’ demand the fertile bimbo vixens in this naughty bundle of breeding erotica. It’s filled to the brim with hot, steamy tales of creamy finishes, featuring breeding, virgins, MILFs and age gaps!

Presenting an American voice for this legendary Agatha Christie mystery with one of her best denouements.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

二人の中学生が、橋の欄干にもたれながら川の流れに目を落としていた。映画で夜更かししたAと、偶然すれ違ったBは、定刻を一分でも過ぎれば門が閉ざされる厳格な学校から締め出されてしまったのだ。仕方なく散歩をすることにした二人は、須田町を抜け、人波の間を縫って進む。初めて体験する“平日の街”は彼らの心を躍らせた。

Una mujer hermosa e ingenua que roba con destreza a altos ejecutivos, un pintor habitado por fuerzas misteriosas y un sacerdote que se enfrenta a un caso de posesión demoníaca en La Candelaria, historias que se tejen en torno a la de Campo Elías, héroe de la guerra de Vietnam, quien inicia su particular descenso a los infiernos obsesionado por la dualidad entre el bien y el mal, entre Jekyll y Hyde, y se convertirá en un ángel exterminador.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

眼病の療養中の「かの女」は、兄の友人である美貌の画家「重光」と郊外の邸で出会う。彼は「素焼の壺が二つ並んだような男女の交際」を望むと語り、次第に彼女に心を開いていく。藤の花を見に出かけた二人だが、重光は山吹の写生に没頭するようになり、その様子を手紙で伝えてくる。彼の絵が評判となる中、かの女はフランスの兄から「重光君と結婚したまえ」という手紙を受け取る。