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The ex-planet Pluto has a few choice words about being thrown out of the solar system. A listing of alternate histories tells you all the various ways Hitler has died. A lawyer sues an interplanetary union for dangerous working conditions. And four artificial intelligences explain, in increasingly worrying detail, how they plan not to destroy humanity. Welcome to Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi.

Michael Ende gelingt es mit seinen Geschichten, junge und alte Leser aus allen Ländern in seinen Bann zu ziehen. Mit den acht Erzählungen dieses Bandes entführt der große Geschichtenerzähler den staunenden Leser in die Welt der Fantasie, in eine Welt voller Wunder und Zeichen. Er erzählt von dem Korridor eines imposanten römischen Palazzo, dessen Ende niemals erreicht werden kann, von einer herrschaftlichen Villa, die durch ihr weites, einladendes Portal niemals zu betreten ist - und die Geschichte von einem, der auszog, das Wundern zu lernen.

Ranging from Texas, to Chile, to New Mexico and New York, in this new collection Berlin writes about the good, the bad and everything in between: struggling young mothers, husbands who pack their bags and leave in the middle of the night, wives looking back at their first marriage from the distance of their second.... Evening in Paradise is a careful selection from Lucia Berlin's remaining stories - a jewel box follow-up for her hungry fans.

Plutarch: Caesar is the essential companion to Plutarch's Alexander, the life paired with Caesar in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. This new English version of Caesar is followed by an Afterword about Plutarch’s Parallel Lives by the translator, Christopher Pelling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.

J. R. R. Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor best known as the author of fantasy works like "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings." Listen as Tolkien reads "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil," "The Hoard," "Perry-The-Winkle," and "The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon." Also included is a reading of "A Elbereth Gilthoniel" in Elvish and "The Road Goes Ever on," sung by William Elvin with music by Donald Swann.

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楠山が体験した神田での生活と、明治30年代から昭和初期にかけての神田の変遷を描いたエッセイ。昔も今も神田という街の外観は大きく変わってはいないものの、町の構造や住民は大きく変わったと指摘する。神田はかつて、浅草と並ぶ大衆娯楽の中心地であったが、今では娯楽の中心は本郷や下町へと移り、神田の賑わいは次第に失われつつある。

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老工夫は休息を欲していた。もう何も刺激はいらないし、大した欲望もない。このトンネルの電燈が自分であったら、どんなに幸福であろうと思っている。刹那、彼は子供の時分の、あの日のことを思い出す。再び帰ることのない生活と自由を、彼は慕った。せめて昔のような、子供に戻れないものなら、この電燈のように、世間の煩わしさから離れて静かにしていたいと空想する。

Nur wenige seiner Werke hielt Franz Kafka für gu genug, um der Nachwelt erhalten zu bleiben. Die Verwandlung gehört dazu. Gregor Samsa findet sich eines Morgens in ein großes Ungeziefer verwandelt. Er nimmt diese Metamorphose scheinbar stoisch hin - doch wie soll und wird es weitergehen? Kafkas wohl berühmtestes Werk.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Last Stories by William Trevor, read by Niamh Cusack, Stephen Hogan and Tara Fitzgerald. In this final collection of ten exquisite, perceptive and profound stories, William Trevor probes into the depths of the human spirit. Here we encounter a tutor and his pupil, whose lives are thrown into turmoil when they meet again years later; a young girl who discovers the mother she believed dead is alive and well; and a piano teacher who accepts her pupil's theft in exchange for his beautiful music.

A casual glance out his apartment window turns Magician Eli Marks’ life upside down. After spotting a dead body in the projection booth of the movie theater next door, Eli is pulled into the hunt for the killer. As he attempts to puzzle out a solution to this classic locked room mystery, he must deal with a crisis of a more personal nature: the appearance of a rival magician who threatens not only Eli’s faith in himself as a performer, but his relationship with his girlfriend.

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness--a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt-of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a father's desperate loneliness by way of his son's daydreaming through a teacher's homicidal breakdown ("The Soul Is Not a Smithy"). Or could explore the deepest and most hilarious aspects of creativity.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】雪の結晶の研究や世界初の人工雪の開発で知られる、明治期から昭和期に活動した物理学者の随筆。父が生前に集めていた九谷焼を震災で失ったこと、時が経つにつれ惜しくなっている。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】お父さんの大事にしている植木鉢のゆずが、今年も大きな実を二つ付けた。これを見ると、年雄君はまだ小さかった日を思い出し、悲しくなる。

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近所の人に「今朝は、お早いですね」と言われて、自分がいかに寝坊だったかを改めて思い知らされた。実際、僕の一日は昼頃から始まり、夜になってから原稿の仕事をする梟のような生活を続けてきた。娘のミミコと女房と三人、友人の家の一室で暮らす詩人の生活。夜中まで仕事をして明け方に眠る毎日で、うなされる癖もある。そんなある朝、「どろぼうだって」とミミコに起こされ―。

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気象学的現象である「凍雨（freezing rain）」および「雨氷（glaze）」についての科学的考察と観察記録。大気中の水蒸気が凍結して地上に降るものを総称して降水と言う。雨や雪は誰でも知っているが、稀有な降水の種類として挙げられるのが「凍雨」と「雨氷」である。

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はるか北の島では、冬が近づくと人々は南へ向けて旅立つ準備を始める。その別れの晩、小屋に集まった男女は食卓を囲み、歌い、にぎやかに踊る。窓の外では、孤独な一匹の狐がその様子をじっと眺めていた。「人間は、ああして楽しそうに暮らしているのに……」――狐は、彼らのように踊ってみたいという、ふとした願いを抱く。

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.

Dick Morrison's life has become a nightmare of addictions, filling his days with overeating, overworking, and smoking way too much. When an old friend tells him about a surefire way to quit, he's more than willing to give it a shot. But what Dick doesn't know is that Quitters, Inc. demands a high price from anyone who strays from their rigid rules-like a few volts of electricity for the nearest and dearest... or maybe a missing thumb?

The legendary writer Patricia Highsmith is best remembered today for her chilling psychological thrillers The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. A critically acclaimed, best-selling author in Europe, Highsmith has for too long been underappreciated in the United States. Eleven is Highsmith's first collection of short stories, an arresting group of dark masterpieces of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability.

Contains all three books in the Iconoclasts trilogy and two short stories.