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Set in the Rocky Mountains, Legends of the Fall is the epic tale of three brothers and their lives of passion, madness, exploration, and danger at the beginning of World War I. In Revenge, love causes the course of a man's life to be savagely and irrevocably altered. And in The Man Who Gave Up His Name, a man named Nordstrom is unable to relinquish his consuming obsessions with women, dancing, and food.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

ある春の夕方、南蛮寺の庭を歩いていたオルガンティノは、言いようのない不安に襲われる。そしてデウスへの祈祷の最中に失心し、岩屋の戸らしい一枚岩や、桶の上で踊り狂う女などの幻を見る。翌日も寺の庭を歩いていると、頸に玉を巻いた老人が現れ、天主教を広めに来ることは悪い事ではないが、デウスも最後には負けると告げる。

This bundle includes The Forbidden Christmas Gift, New Year's Eve, Loving Valentine, and Ember in the Heart.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

『伸子』『道標』などの代表作で知られ、昭和期に活動した作家の随筆。ナイチンゲールは生きているうちから、慈悲の女神、天使として伝説に包まれた存在だったが、現実の生活はどうだったのか。クリミア戦争が終わり、イギリス負傷兵のいるトルコの陸軍病院での激労を終えて帰国した彼女は、世間的な名声を得た。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

宮本は、意味ある生活への願いと現実社会の生活形態間の深い矛盾を指摘する。明治時代は学問と社会活動の一致があったが、現代ではサラリーマン生活などの外面的円滑さだけでは解決できない問題がある。それは大学の学問的自主性喪失や知識人の方向性喪失が一因だが、若者を動かすのは単なる消極性ではなく社会矛盾への公憤だと主張する。

Edgar Allan Poe (1809- 1849) war ein US-amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er prägte entscheidend die Gattung der Kurzgeschichte sowie die Genres der Kriminal-, Horror- und Schauerliteratur. Einzelne Erzählungen haben spätere Autoren der Science-Fiction wie Jules Verne beeinflusst. Seine Lyrik, in Europa u. a. von Charles Baudelaire rezipiert, wurde zum Fundament des Symbolismus und damit der modernen Dichtung.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】田部から電話があり、一年ぶりに訪ねてくるという。別れた男は恋の焼跡を吟味しに来るようなもの。元芸者の相沢きんは滞りなく身支度を済ませると、鏡の前で自分の舞台姿を確かめる。

Read by two-time Oscar winner Tom Hanks. A collection of seventeen wonderful short stories showing that Tom Hanks is as talented a writer as he is an actor. A gentle Eastern European immigrant arrives in New York City after his family and his life have been torn apart by his country's civil war...

Here, gathered in one volume, are the stories that made Clarice a Brazilian legend. Originally a cloth edition of 86 stories, now we have 89 in all, covering her whole amazing career, from her teenage years to her deathbed. In these pages, we meet teenagers becoming aware of their sexual and artistic powers, humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies, old people who don't know what to do with themselves - and in their stories, Clarice takes us through their lives - and hers - and ours.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone. A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading...

The stories in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisom and beauty, lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells. We meet the melancholy deodands, who feed on human flesh and the twk-men, who ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: The evil are charming, the good are dangerous. All are at home.

The Greek poet, Hesiod, stands out as the first personality in European literature. The Theogony contains a genealogy of the gods from the beginning of time and an account of their violent struggles before the present order was established. The Works and Days, a compendium of advice for a life of honest husbandry, shines a unique and fascinating light on archaic Greek society, ethics, and superstition. Hesiod's poetry is the oldest source of the myths of Prometheus, Pandora, and the Golden Age.

Based on Japanese literature and foldlore, Kwaidan contains 17 stories. The story of Loichi, the blind biwa player who was called to perform for the dead; of Muso, the journeying priest who encountered a man eating goblin; of the samurai who outwitted the ghost of a dead man. All these plus 14 other spooly tales are included in this collection.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

雪の降る退屈な晩、井深君の邸宅に集まった友人たちが嘘の話を競い合っていた。順番が回ってきた井深君は「偽瞞こそあらゆる芸術の本体だ」と前置きし、自分が嘘をついた話を始める。それは銀座を散歩中、オレンジ色のジャケットを着た若い女性との出会いから始まった。颯々と肩をゆすりながら歩いていく彼女を「不良だな」と思いつつも、なぜか後を追いたくなり...…。

Shelby is struggling with parenthood, marriage, a passive-aggressive mother, and unemployment. But she also has a sweet escape in her beloved Hallmark movies. When a secret admirer promises to sweep her away into a world of those same romantic tropes, the temptation is so heady, Shelby can already smell the pumpkin spice. But this rom-com dream has a whiff of conspiracy....

H. P. Lovecrafts Mystery-Box: Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937); meist nur H. P. Lovecraft, war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller. Er gilt als einer der weltweit einflussreichsten Autoren im Bereich der phantastischen und anspruchsvollen Horror-Literatur.

Komisarz Kawecki rozpoczyna śledztwo w sprawie zabójstwa właściciela pensjonatu w Otwocku. W ogrodzie otaczającym budynek komisarz odkrywa drugą ofiarę – zamordowano także młodą kobietę. Okazuje się, że zamordowani mieli romans. Podejrzaną o dokonanie zbrodni jest córka zamordowanego, Marta Tetraszewska, która nie akceptowała nowego związku ojca. Trzecia odsłona kryminalnych historii, których akcja związana jest z Otwockiem.

What makes love stick? Is it the irresistible spark when you lock eyes across a piazza in Rome? Is it feeling the earth move under your feet? (Wait—that was an actual earthquake.) In these six serendipitous short stories, bestselling authors turn improbable first encounters into hopelessly romantic happy ever afters.

In this classic collection of four novellas, the grand master takes you on irrestistible journeys into the far reaches of horror, heartache and hope. Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption is the story of two men convicted of murder - one guilty, one innocent - who form the perfect partnership...

The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring prize-winning stories by a diverse and exciting array of writers, including Wendell Berry, Alice Hoffman, Dave Eggers, Ling Ma, Lori Ostlund, and Anthony Marra. Continuing a century-long tradition of cutting-edge literary excellence, this year's...