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Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home after the Trojan War, he doesn’t realize this simple undertaking will become a perilous journey of 10 years. Beset at every turn, he encounters obstacles, detours, and temptations—both supernatural and human—while his wife Penelope fends off would-be suitors desperate to take the throne.

“A diverse and glorious selection . . . a gift of imagination, wit, and wonder. The collection is filled with miniature masterpieces. . . . This must-have anthology is a treasure trove not to be missed.” —Library Journal (starred review) The prestigious annual story anthology, featuring...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】老獣医の糟谷は家族とともに暮らし、貧しいながらも診療所を運営していた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】豊富な良水を持つ京都は古来より豆腐作りで名高い土地である。特に精進料理を好む京都人の嗜好も相まって、上質な豆腐の産地として知られていた。

「情熱大陸」出演で話題！
現代ショートショートの旗手、最新作。

月曜日は気分が沈む……
注文した料理がなかなかこない……
スマホの充電がすぐなくなる……

｢そんな依頼はおれにまかせ

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

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。

With Life Ceremony, the incomparable Sayaka Murata is back with her first collection of short stories ever to be translated into English. In Japan, Murata is particularly admired for her short stories, which are sometimes sweet, sometimes shocking, and always imbued with an otherworldly imagination and uncanniness.

島崎藤村の生活上の好みから、その文体と人への態度を読み解いた随筆文。酒粕に漬けた茄子が好きだからと冬のうちから酒粕を貯え、質素な借家には凝った道具を並べる。置き物を一つ二つに限った清楚な座敷を見ては、きれいに片づいていると寒々しいと口にする。

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The Lighthouse Keeper’s Tea is a gentle, second-person sleep story for grown-ups. You walk the cliff path at dusk and arrive at a white tower with a blue door. Hester, the keeper, is expecting you. Together you climb the iron stairs, polish the brass...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A pair of young newlyweds and their friends ride out to a gipsy encampment on a summer afternoon, looking for nothing more than an amusing fortune told for a shilling. The old woman takes the husband’s hand and will not speak. Pressed, she gives a...

A grotesque figure stalks an artist's dreams. A mysterious symbol keeps appearing. And the boundary between nightmare and reality begins to collapse. In Robert W. Chambers's *The Yellow Sign*, artist Jack Scott and his model, Tessie, find themselves unsettled by a disturbing figure whose...

What if the perfect journey was the one you could not plan?She Knew by Morning is a sleep story for adults that follows Laura as she leaves behind familiar routines for a journey across distant tropical islands, where each new destination brings another cottage, another stretch of sea and...

**The Christmas Cookie Stories from the Counter** Every cookie has a story. Every visitor brings a life of their own. Step inside a little Christmas cookie shoppe, where the warmth of the oven is matched only by the kindness found across the counter. Through a collection of tender, heartfelt...

THE VAULTS OF SILENCEBook IV of the Resonance CycleTHE SILENCE IS A LIE.For forty-four years, the survivors of the human race have lived within the Redoubt—a subterranean masterpiece of granite and ceramic, protected from the "Friction" of a ruined world. Inside, there is no hunger, no disease...

Does love die when the body stops breathing? A paranormal, delusional spicy short story...

In a condemned hotel full of forbidden rooms, the dumbwaiter keeps rising from floors that shouldn’t exist.Thirty years after he shot a boy in the woods, the letters begin arriving in places no living hand could reach.His grandfather’s creationist museum is laughable upstairs; downstairs...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. John Mortonson is dead. His body lies in the parlour in an open coffin with a glass plate over the face, and the mourners file past in the heavy air of a summer afternoon. His widow and daughter sit close by, weeping as the service goes on around them...

Tauchen Sie ein in Frankreichs erfolgreichsten Kriminalroman "Die schlimmsten Verbrechen geschehen vor aller Augen" Laura hat sich in Kanada ein neues Leben aufgebaut. Doch eines Tages beschließt sie, all ihre Ersparnisse zu opfern, um ihrer Schwester in Paris einen Überraschungsbesuch...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Trece cuentos para la noche de Hanal Pixán, cuando las ánimas regresan a casa. Velas, altares, el pib y los caminos de Yucatán y México guardan historias que se cuentan en voz baja: una pasajera en el camino a Izamal, una ofrenda que nadie puso, un...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Driving home from a country visit on a July evening, a doctor meets a man on the dark road near Stony Creek: a strange, courteous stranger who speaks of hypnotism and of the power of one mind to govern another’s senses entirely. What follows is a...