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What is a sensitive classical pianist doing in a sleazy WWII Parisian cabaret? Why is he keeping his Chopin sheet music inside the piano bench every night? Which two people from his past have scarred his soul forever? Winter Pale, a young beautiful foreigner, a girl with a painful past of her own, recounts his story and, with it, delves deep into her own soul.

A Warhammer 40,000 Anthology The Battle Sisters of the Adepta Sororitas are true exemplars of the Imperial Creed, purging the enemies of the God-Emperor with unshakeable faith and fury. This anthology, combining two novellas and five short stories, chronicles their epic deeds and valiant sacrifices. LISTEN TO IT BECAUSE There are few tales more inspiring than those of the Sisters of Battle – driven by faith and sisterhood, they rush into battle when others flee, never hesitating to do their duty.

At times stern, at other times patient, at times perceptive, at other times in sad denial, Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher, deplores the changes in her little town of Crosby, Maine, and in the world at large, but she doesn’t always recognize the changes in those around her: a lounge musician haunted by a past romance; a former student who has lost the will to live; Olive’s own adult child, who feels tyrannized by her irrational sensitivities; and her husband, Henry, who finds his loyalty to his marriage both a blessing and a curse.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】九月に突然末妹・杉枝の結婚が決まった。相手は上海の銀行勤務の安並という男で、本来は長女の登美子に持ち込まれた話であったが、登美子は見合いに乗り気ではなく断ったのだ。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】新聞社から元日の記事執筆を依頼された漱石が、新年にちなんだ文章を書く難しさや、それをめぐる葛藤を語ったエッセイ。

Franz Kafka ist aus der deutschsprachigen Literatur nicht wegzudenken. Seine Phantasie, seine Erzählkunst, seine Menschenkenntnis sind einmalig. Immer wieder verschmilzt er virtuos Handlung mit Gedanken und legt im Leben seiner Figuren Tiefenschichten frei. Die Hörbuch Box präsentiert Kafka kompakt, seine erstaunlichsten Erzählungen und Parabeln.

Here is a story that goes beyond space and time. Isaac Asimov takes on a journey that explores the ultimate fate of the universe, along with the question, what will become of the human race? So take a journey into the outer twilight of your mind. Turn off the light, sit back and relax, close your eyes, and enter the infinite universe of your imagination.

In Lamb to the Slaughter, Roald Dahl tells a twisted story about the darker side of human nature. Here, a wife serves up a dish that utterly baffles the police....

The book is designed to teach students to speak English at an intermediate level. The volume contains 20 short stories and special training drills based on the speech plasma method. This volume will enable foreign students of English to feel more comfortable with the language at an advanced level. The book is a collection of stories told by people in an everyday conversational manner. The stories are accounts of incidents or ideas that the people interviewed consider interesting or entertaining.

"The Black Cat" tells an unforgettable tale of obsession, murder...and revenge! Poe's narrator, who admits to horribly mistreating the eponymous house pet, is forced to deal with the bizarre and unexplainable repercussions of his own vicious cruelty.

Accomodati a un tavolino. Gusta il tuo caffè. Lasciati sorprendere dalla vita. L'aroma dolce del caffè aleggia nell'aria fin dalle prime ore del mattino. Quando lo si avverte, è impossibile non varcare la soglia della caffetteria da cui proviene. Un luogo, in un piccolo paese del Giappone, dove si può essere protagonisti di un'esperienza indimenticabile. Basta entrare, lasciarsi servire e appoggiare le labbra alla tazzina per vivere di nuovo l'esatto istante in cui ci si è trovati a prendere una decisione sbagliata.

Ken Liu is one of the most original, thought-provoking and award-winning short-story writers of his generation. This is the first collection of his work – sixteen stories that invoke the magical within the mundane, by turns profound, beguiling and heartbreaking.

A young, naïve but ultimately courageous hedge knight, Ser Duncan the Tall towers above his rivals—in stature if not experience. Tagging along is his diminutive squire, a boy called Egg—whose true name is hidden from all he and Dunk encounter. Though more improbable heroes may not be found in all of Westeros, great destinies lay ahead for these two . . . as do powerful foes, royal intrigue, and outrageous exploits. Featuring more than 160 all-new illustrations by Gary Gianni, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms is a must-have collection that proves chivalry isn’t dead—yet.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】宿屋を営む久江は、戦死した一人息子・清治の位牌を仏壇に祀りながら静かな生活を送っている。

【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。

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寺田寅彦の随筆。古代北欧の英雄譚と日常のピアノ練習を組み合わせた構成になっている。春の寒い時期、床に臥せっていた寺田は、Heimskringlaという書物を手に取った。それはスノルレ・スツール・ラソンが12世紀末に記録したスカンジナヴィアの古い物語である。また、隣室では長女がメンデルスゾーンの「春の歌」のピアノ練習をしていた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】坂口安吾は、葬式や通夜といった儀式を無意味で退屈なものとし、葬式に出席しない主義を貫いている。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】瀧子は裁縫教室の教師として働き、結婚を考えたことのない独身女性である。ある日、町の有力者である山口から直接結婚を申し込まれる。

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アメリカのウィネツカ滞在時に執筆した随筆集。ウィネツカと札幌を比較しながら、北国特有の春の風景や情趣を描写している。庭木の自然さ、北海道の山うどの風味、鰊の美味しさ、アメリカにおける食品の過剰生産、東京・大阪間の高速道路計画への疑問、北海道の重要性と開発の課題など、多様なテーマが論じられていく。

A collection of sixteen unique, spicy stories by and for women who love—and lust after—women.