検索キーワード： 選集・短編小説

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.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】日本における名字は、家族の分化や居住地の変遷と密接に関連し、その数は非常に多い。

From L.A. to rural Ireland, from war-torn Beirut to a windswept Scottish coastline, from the bright lights of the theatre to the dimness of the therapist’s office - these six outstanding and impactful stories seek to explore grief and trauma, new beginnings and hope. The shortlisted stories have all been chosen for 2021's Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award - the world's richest and most prestigious prize for a single short story. Dubbed the 'equivalent of the Man Booker for the short story' by the Sydney Morning Herald, the winner receives £30,000.

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite elephant vanish into thin air; a newlywed couple suffers attacks of hunger that drive them to hold up a McDonald's in the middle of the night; and a young woman discovers that she has become irresistible to a little green monster who burrows up through her backyard.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes tales are rightly ranked among the seminal works of mystery and detective fiction. Included in this collection are all four full-length Holmes novels and more than forty short masterpieces - from the inaugural adventure A Study in Scarlet to timeless favorites like “The Speckled Band” and more. At the center of each stands the iconic figure of Holmes - brilliant, eccentric, and capable of amazing feats of deductive reasoning.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】大垣藩の郡玄一郎は藩主からの使命で彦根への道中、伊吹山で山賊に遭遇する。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

昭和期には「日本のルネ・クレール」と呼ばれた映画監督による社会評論。最近、自由映画人連盟の人達が映画界の戦争責任者を指摘し、追放を主張している。主唱者の中に私も混じっているが、本当の意見を述べて立場を明らかにしておく。

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone. Here are lovesick doctors, students, ex-boyfriends, actors, bartenders, and even Kafka’s Gregor Samsa, brought together to tell stories that speak to us all. In Men Without Women, Murakami has crafted another contemporary classic, marked by the same wry humor and pathos that have defined his entire body of work.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

「ぼく」は肺病療養のため温泉地に滞在していたある夜、波打ち際に立つ若い女性の姿を目にした。彼女が自殺を図るのではと駆け寄るが、自身が喀血して倒れてしまう。介抱をきっかけに、宿が近かったこともあり、二人は自然と交流を深めていく。彼女には轡川という男がつきまとっており、暴力的に関係を持たれた過去があるという。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】海辺の家に母と娘が暮らしていた。2年前、漁に出た父は行方不明となり、二人は父の帰りを待ち望んでいた。ある嵐の夜、娘は父の帰還を願い、窓辺にろうそくを灯し続けた。深夜、戸をたたく音がして黒い装束の男が現れる。男は父からの言づてと称して袋を置いていく。中身は一見、金銀の粉に見えたが、翌朝確認すると汚れた貝殻だった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ある村のやさしいおじいさんが、町へ用事で出かける。途中で公園の前で泣いている子供を見つけ、家に帰れずにいることを知る。おじいさんは子供を手助けしようと風船を買ってあげ、家を探そうとする。しばらくして子供の母親が現れ、子供を連れ戻す。 用事を済ませたおじいさんは村への帰り道で雪に降られ、道に迷ってしまう。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】何十年も前、麻布の女学校の寄宿生だった頃、Ｌ氏殺人事件という騒ぎが起きた。

When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden. An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world of semi-consciousness in which anything seems possible - even death. In every one of these stories Murakami makes a determined assault on the normal.

Here in one recording is every Sherlock Holmes story ever written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Originally appearing in serial form, these famous stories are here presented in the order in which they were first published beginning in 1887. Included in this definitive, award-winning collection are four novels and 56 short stories, a total of 60 titles. The 56 short stories are aggregated into five named collections, just as they were originally published in book form.

Benedict Cumberbatch reads these four new Sherlock Holmes stories by John Taylor: 'An Inscrutable Masquerade', 'The Conundrum of Coach 13', 'The Trinity Vicarage Larceny' and 'The 10.59 Assassin'. Inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's original Sherlock Holmes stories, John Taylor has written four more mysteries featuring the world's greatest detective. Read by acclaimed actor Benedict Cumberbatch, these new adventures share all the suspense of the original tales.

この人を好きになってよかった――140字で綴られる、出会いと別れ、そして再会。（以下、本文『別れの挨拶』引用）「またね」それが彼とお決まりの挨拶だった。また次の機会にね、そんな意味を込めて。

The 24 stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami’s mastery of the form. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well as the dreams that shape us and the things for which we might wish. From the surreal to the mundane, these stories exhibit Murakami’s ability to transform the full range of human experience in ways that are instructive, surprising, and entertaining.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

五十九歳で亡くなった母について綴ったエッセイ。母の臨終に最後の十五分だけ立ち会えた宮本は、父を支えるために涙を抑えていたことを振り返る。母は糖尿病を患い、膵臓の膿腫を経て肺エソで亡くなった。華族女学校に通った母は、官吏の父をもち、米沢の士族の家に嫁ぎ、姑や小姑との複雑な関係を経験。

Isabel Gibson has all but perfected the art of forgetting. She’s a New Yorker now, with nothing left to tie her to Brinkley’s Island, Maine. Her parents are gone, the family bookstore is all but bankrupt, and her sister, Sophie, will probably never speak to her again. But when a mysterious letter arrives in her mailbox, Isabel feels herself drawn to the past. After years of fighting for her independence, she dreads the thought of going back to the island.

Growing up, Violet was so busy helping others realize their dreams, she found little time to pursue her own. But five years ago, she took the chance of a lifetime, leaving the family bookshop on Brinkley’s Island, Maine, to attend culinary school in Paris. Now she’s working her dream job as a pâtissiere in an upscale Parisian restaurant—yet all she can think about is home.