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【小学館の名作文芸朗読】パリにいる息子への思いを綴った随筆。著者は巴里の北で息子と別れてから六年目になると述べ、心の橋で二人はいつでも出会えると感じている。息子は健康で画業を進捗させており、横光利一の旅行文や松尾邦之助の通信でもその様子を知ることができるが、息子に似た青年の後姿を見たり、残された稽古用品を見たりするたびに、「タロー！」と叫び出したくなるほど思いが募る。

愛を失くした女子たちの、性と生についての痛切な短編集。 苦しくも美しい、哀と狂気を召し上がれ。 水のように無味無臭で摑めない男との日々「水みたいな人」、 明けない夜、名前も知らない恋人との関係に耽る「ジンジャーエールに似ている」、 私の体に飽きてきた彼氏に感じる切なさ「ぬるいラムネ」、

Brought to you by Penguin. Short, sometimes sweet and often strange, here are seven great stories by some of the best writers from around the world... Anne Enright Yoko Ogawa David Szalay Nadifa Mohamed Andrey Kurkov Yael van der Wouden and Roddy Doyle The Booker Prizes celebrate the world’s...

Ralphie Davis, was never man enough for his father or worth his mother’s attention. His life began once he moved from his parents’ home and into his sister’s. Tess, his older sister, was the only one to ever give him the time of day. He really never fit in anywhere and with no path to follow, no outlet, or really anything he enjoyed, he was well and truly lost. Then one day, his sister took him to work with her and introduced him to a whole new world full of endless possibilities. Had he finally found where he belonged? Daddy Marcel Allard hadn’t been a daddy in ages.

Dans ce recueil du début du XXe siècle, Georges Fourest compose des contes vifs et malicieux où l’humour et la satire s’allient à une observation sociale aussi fine que piquante. D’une histoire à l’autre, les situations se dérobent, les points de vue se renversent, et la comédie humaine, tour à tour burlesque, ironique ou cruellement lucide, prend des reflets inattendus. Entre légèreté et mordant, ces textes courts épinglent travers, illusions et prétentions.

The illustrations here center on a leaf. Their story is familiar to many. Whether at the beginning, middle or end of your journey in life, in one way or another we are all attempting to find a home a place where we belong, a place where we are cared for, a place where we are loved, and a place where we are held. For many, home is where you are born, where people look like you, talk like you, maybe even think like you.

The Golden Flame of India The monsoon winds whispered secrets through the narrow alleys of Bombay, where incense mingled with the scent of wet earth, and lanterns cast golden halos upon ancient stone, in a world where tradition-bound daughters in silk and silence, Asha Patel dared to dream beyond the confines of her father's courtyard.

Alex knew life with an angel and demon would bring its challenges. After feuds with monsters and the lords of Hell, he’s got the scars to prove it. Yet between each crisis, Alex, Rachel, and Lorelei share a deep romance and a daily life that makes the dangers all worthwhile—even if some of those days between crises aren’t entirely peaceful, either. COZY SHADOWS collects twenty novelettes and short stories threaded in between the novels of the Good Intentions series, ranging from pure steamy romance and fun to supernatural action and adventure.

Everybody loves stories and Scotland is full of them. Every town, village, glen, loch, nook and cranny has a tale to tell and it’s these stories that bring those places to life. Scotland’s Stories is the key to unlocking those legends and seeing these already incredible places in a new way. Loch Garve looks different once you know there’s a Kelpie lurking somewhere in its depths.

He was called many things—outlaw, poet, killer, gentleman. But in the dying light of the Arizona Territory, Johnny Ringo was simply a man trying to outrun his own shadow. From the dusty backroads of Texas to the lawless streets of Tombstone, Ringo follows one of the West’s most haunted figures—a man torn between faith and fury, poetry and the pistol. As the world around him bleeds into legend, Ringo searches for something the frontier can’t give him: peace.

If you've never heard of The Book of Ava: Blending of Realities—an experimental, multi-genre, time-traveling science fiction that blends modern physics, ancient history, quantum tarot, mythology, spirituality, and emerging technology into one multidimensional journey—this work serves as a standalone preview and deep dive into the core ideas behind the series.

All six, full-length, stand alone, contemporary romances in the bestselling Mister Series, together in one collection. If you like British billionaires, fake dating, second chances, work place romances, single dads, grumpy sunshine, opposites attract, enemies to lovers, then you're going to love the Misters...

Beginning with A Study in Scarlet and concluding with The Hound of the Baskervilles, this epic project took over 8 years to complete - and this landmark collection contains the extraordinary result. Here is the world's first ever fully dramatised Sherlock Holmes canon: 56 short stories and 4 novels, all made by the same team of directors, producers, dramatists and leading actors, and packed with the high production qualities of a film or TV drama that set it apart.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】二・二六事件が起きた日、「私」は客人と火鉢を囲んで話をしていた。話題は「女」のことになり、客人が自身の体験を語り始める。客人は二十七八歳で、向島に五歳の娘と二人で暮らしていた。川開きの花火の夜、娘に絵を描いてやっていた時、水色のタオル地の寝巻を着た女と出会ったという。

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.

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芥川龍之介による「桃太郎」の再話。深い山奥に巨大な桃の木があり、1万年に1度赤子が宿る実がなる。ある日、一つの実が谷川に落ち、川下で洗濯をしていたおばあさんに拾われる。この赤子が桃太郎となり、鬼ヶ島征伐を思い立つ。老夫婦は桃太郎を追い出したい思いから、出陣の支度をさせた。桃太郎は犬、猿、雉と共に旅をはじめるが、たどり着いた鬼ヶ島は、実は平和な楽土であった。

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He is the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning (somewhat mistakenly - see inductive reasoning) and astute observation to solve difficult cases.

Nobody gets more upset about a lack of eggs than I do...

Ce premier volume des Scènes de la vie privée rassemble des récits où Balzac scrute les cœurs et les fortunes avec une précision implacable. De La Maison du Chat-qui-pelote au Bal de Sceaux, de La Bourse à La Vendetta, jusqu’à Madame Firmiani, Une double famille, La Paix du ménage, La Fausse Maîtresse, Étude de femme et Albert Savarus, ces tableaux de la vie intime révèlent l’ambition, l’amour, l’orgueil et les calculs qui tissent le quotidien.

The final three contemporary western romance novels in the Stones of Heart Falls series from New York Times bestselling author Vivian Arend.