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Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

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.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

ポコちゃんと千ちゃんは夏休みに月の世界を探検する計画を立てる。宇宙艇カモシカ号は順調に運行していたが、成層圏を通りこすと、突然、どえらい音をたてて艇が揺れる。空中分解するのではと心配したが、その正体は流星群の隕石だった。何とか危機を脱出し宇宙の墓場と言われる重力平衡圏まで来ると、三年前に遭難した新コロンブス号を見つける。

朗読むすめの朗読Bookシリーズが『平家物語』全192弾にチャレンジ！鎌倉時代から700年あまりも読み継がれ、令和の今もアニメになり話題になるほどの人気の『平家物語』をお届けします。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】十二の時、叔父さんが私の綴り方（作文）を「青い鳥」に投書したら一等に当選。次に「春日町」という綴り方を投書すると雑誌に掲載された。

This audiobook brings together 13 uproarious short stories and one novella, focused on Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium. His stories are celebrated as heroic propaganda pieces, but he’s simply trying to stay alive in a hostile galaxy.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ベルギーにある科学研究所で、モール博士は人造人間の設計図を二本の黒い筒に分けて、弟子の千吉とハンスに預ける。

Written initially in French, later translated by the author into English, Molloy is the first book in Dublin-born Samuel Beckett's trilogy. It was published shortly after WWII and marked a new, mature writing style, which was to dominate the remainder of his working life. Molloy is less a novel than a set of two monologues narrated by Molloy and his pursuer, Moran.

After a lifetime spent in public relations, one-woman dynamo Agatha Raisin struggles to adapt to life in a quiet country village - but she soon finds that there is murder and mayhem aplenty to keep her busy. Among the cases she has to deal with are a poisoned quiche; a vet who has been ‘put to sleep’; a hanged horticulturist; a murdered rambler and a curate who meets his Maker somewhat sooner than expected.

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938. Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers...

Notes from the author: The following is a short story I wrote in the Elantris world back in January of 2006. There were always a few holes in Elantris where I decided not to include viewpoints or sections of explanation in the name of streamlining, particularly at the end. In the back of my mind, I knew what happened. This story talks about one of those holes; it is meant to be heard after you’ve finished the novel and takes place during the events of the climax.  

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

おばあさんが豆を煮ようと火を起こそうとした時、豆が一粒だけ床のわらのそばに転がっていく。その後から炭が竈から跳ね出して二人のところにやって来る。命拾いをした三人は友達になり、一緒にどこかよその国へ行くことに。やがて小さな流れのあるところに出たが、橋も渡し板もなく途方に暮れる。わらがうまいことを考えつき、向こう岸まで渡れるよう体を長々とのばす。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】サンフランシスコから渡船でオークランドに渡り、セミナリー・アヴェニューからミルスカレッジを通り過ぎた先にハイツがある。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】秩父地方の豊かな自然が織りなす美しさを描いた随筆。秩父の山々は威圧的ではなく人を優しく包み込む性質を持つ。小暮は、それは情緒的であり女性的であると述べる。

At the heart of these stories, as with all the best of Lovecraft’s work, is the belief that the Earth was once inhabited by powerful and evil gods, just waiting for the chance to recolonise their planet. Cthulhu is one such god, lurking deep beneath the sea until called into being by cult followers who – like all humans – know not what they do.

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume Two is the second instalment of our wide-ranging classic collections. Volume Two features 13 essential classic novels from Jane Austen; Edith Wharton; Leo Tolstoy; D.H. Lawrence, and many more, alongside selected poetry from Christina Rossetti; Elizabeth Browning; and Emily Dickinson. Read by a cast of incredible narrators including Joanne Froggatt, Adjoa Andoh, Jonathan Keeble, and many more, this is your new go-to collection to catch up on those classics you've always wanted to hear.

The eight masterly stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator. From nostalgic memories of youth, meditations on music and an ardent love of baseball to dreamlike scenarios, an encounter with a talking monkey and invented jazz albums, together these stories challenge the boundaries between our minds and the exterior world. Occasionally, a narrator who may or may not be Murakami himself is present. Is it memoir or fiction? The listener decides.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ある時、漁師が海で大きなヒラメを釣る。ヒラメが自分は魔法をかけられた王子だと言うので逃がしてあげる。漁師は小屋に帰り、その出来事をおかみさんに話す。

【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。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

吉田は激しい咳と高熱に見舞われ、次第に身体の力を奪われていく。咳すらできないほどに衰弱し、呼吸は浅く、眠ることもままならない。夜になると、理由のわからない不安がじわじわと胸を満たし、孤独のなかで声にならない助けを求め続ける。母が隣室にいるにもかかわらず、その距離を越えて自分の苦しみを伝えることができない。