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五十九歳で亡くなった母について綴ったエッセイ。母の臨終に最後の十五分だけ立ち会えた宮本は、父を支えるために涙を抑えていたことを振り返る。母は糖尿病を患い、膵臓の膿腫を経て肺エソで亡くなった。華族女学校に通った母は、官吏の父をもち、米沢の士族の家に嫁ぎ、姑や小姑との複雑な関係を経験。

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More by Roald Dahl, read by Andrew Scott. Roald Dahl turns his pen to anything, twisting everyday life into powerful, and sometimes terrifying fantasies. Seven superb stories, full of Roald Dahl's usual magic...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】作家としての考えや文学観について述べたエッセイ。作家にとっての「大人になること」の是非と、太宰治や坂口安吾など当時の作家への評価。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】『分類アイヌ語辞典』『地名アイヌ語辞典』の著書で知られ、昭和期に活動したアイヌ言語学者の随筆。

Boston-born first-responder Alex Flynn is back with wry wit and still chasing emergencies in rural Vermont in this tale involving a gas line, a chainsaw, and other things that might or might not go boom and that might or might not go horrible wrong. Eavesdrop on emergency personnel as they attempt to diffuse a dicey situation in this, the first in the Trowbridge Dispatch collection of short stories.

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...

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】労働者の主体的な覚醒の重要性を説いた社会評論。有島は、労働運動が学者や思想家の手を離れ、労働者自身のものとなりつつあるという社会の変化を論じている。労働者は従来、学者や思想家に自分たちを支配すべき特権を許し、彼らの学説や思想に頼っていた。

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小学六年生のころ、「ぼく」は、沼で遊ぶ少女に心を奪われた。それからというもの、すっかり勉強が手につかなくなって中学入試に落第してしまった。そればかりか、高等科で一年を過ごした後、中学に入学しても、校長の授業中に居眠りをして「注意人物」として朱色の△印をつけられてしまう始末だった。この理不尽な仕打ちは、「ぼく」の学校への反感を育てていった。

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...

【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。

‘Ted Chiang is one of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . These parables are filled with hope and humanism.’ – The Daily Telegraph From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award-winning film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking...

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...

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科学的小説家である鵜照（うてる）は、子供の頃から「新年」に恐怖を抱いていた。晴れ着を着せられ親類を訪問させられたり、意味のない祝詞を暗唱させられたりしたのが原因だった。26歳で年賀状を初めて作った時は満足したが、それが常習化すると苦労の種となり、「同じ文句を印刷して交換するなら、最初から交換しなくても同じ」と年賀状全廃説を唱えるようになってしまった。

All of Edgar Allan Poe’s great short stories in one 16-hour collection.

내 몸속의 독소를 없앤다는 것은 '무엇을 먹어야 좋은지' 생각하는 게 아니라, '무엇을 덜 먹어야 건강한지'에 대해 고민하고 실천하는 것입니다. 마음이 번잡하신가요? 몸이 무거우신가요? 나만의 우영팟에서 직접 키운...

휴식은 게으른 것도, 멈추는 것도 아닙니다. 우리의 뇌가 과부하되기 전에 적극적으로 휴식을 취해야 더 충만한 에너지를 얻을 수 있으니까요. 스웨덴에선 '피카 타임'을 외치며 일부러 쉬어가는 시간을 갖습니다. 일과 쉼...

습관적으로 들어가는 SNS 속 인생들에 대해 더 이상 궁금해 하지 마세요. 대신 그 시간을 오롯이 나의 에너지를 충전하는 것들로 채우세요. 스마트폰 없는 세상, 이제는 상상하기 힘듭니다. 하지만 가끔은 없어도 살 수...

This set includes the first three novels in the Cape Bay Cafe Mysteries, starring amateur sleuth Francesca Amaro—barista, baker, and owner of Antonia’s Italian Café: Cappuccinos, Cupcakes, and a Corpse; Tea, Tiramisu, and Tough Guys; and Margaritas, Marzipan, and Murder.

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フランスのトゥロンを舞台にした短編小説。この町には盲目のジャンと足の不自由なピエールという二人の身体障害者がいた。人々は、この二人だけが障碍者であると思っており、それは本来なら町の守り本尊である聖マルティンの木像に願をかければ障害が治ってしまうからであった。しかし、海賊の襲来を恐れた町の長老たちが像を山奥に隠してしまったため、治らない状態が続いていた。

Benjamin Button was literally born an old man. He lived a backwards life, for his body grew younger as the years passed him by. Come and listen to the original, unabridged story by F. Scott Fitzgerald which inspired the movie.

Miss Prudence Canton loves her quiet life in the country, caring for her ailing father and their beloved horses. She's become adept at fending off the advances of gentlemen until a bold stranger named Lord Woodleigh makes a visit to the stables. For a brief moment lust takes over, but Prudence's father, and his gun, find them before things get out of hand. Now, in order to pay for those stolen kisses, Lord Woodleigh is forced to find a husband for the woman whose reputation he himself nearly ruined.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity’s oldest...

집에서 5분만 걸으면 만나는 공원. 조금만 더 걸으면 마주하는 숲과 호수, 그리고 강. 스웨덴은 일부러 찾지 않아도 늘 곁에 숨 쉬고 있는 천혜의 자연환경을 품고 있습니다. 수도인 스톡홀름부터 말이죠. 그 무엇보다 자연의...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FICTION PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE 2018 'Brilliantly inventive and blazingly smart' Garth Greenwell 'Impossible, imperfect, unforgettable' Roxane Gay In her provocative debut, Carmen Maria Machado demolishes the borders...

Varena is set to marry a prince—young, handsome, wealthy. Why, then, does she see a glimpse of something in his eyes that terrifies her?

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】人間と他の動物の「私有財産制度」を比較する社会論。人間社会で財産が生命に次ぐ重要さを持つのと同様に、動物にも「自分だけが守り、使えるもの」としての私有財産があるとし、猿の頬袋の人参や犬の隠した骨、モグラやネズミの蓄えなどの例を挙げる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】真夏のある日、男は牛に重い荷物を引かせて町へ出掛けた。汗を流しながら街道を歩く牛が茶屋にさしかかると、男は牛に、荷物を無事に先方に届けたら、帰りに餡ころもちを買ってやると言う。牛は重そうな足を精一杯に早め、午後に目的地に着くことができた。いつもより多く賃金を貰った男は、帰りに居酒屋で一杯やってしまう。そして餡ころもちを売っている店を通る頃、雷が鳴り始める。

A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror appears out of nowhere and a night watchman is unnerved as his reflection tries to take control of him; a couple's...

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草原で楽譜を持って座っていたギルダの前に、突如として彼女が深く尊敬するマリヴロン女史が現れる。ライラック色の裾をひいた優雅な姿に、虹が空に架かる幻想的な光景の中で、ギルダは化石のように固まってしまう。やがて勇気を振り絞り、アフリカへ行く牧師の娘であることを告げながら、自分の命を差し出してもマリヴロンの芸術を讃えたいと願う。

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山ノ手のとあるカフェで二人の青年が話している。酔っている方の青年は、崖の上から窓を見るのが趣味で、そこには人に言えない欲望、人のベッドシーンが見たいという特殊な執着があった。そして彼には、そんな興味で崖の上から見る一つの窓がある。実際に人のベッドシーンを見ることはないが、それよりも夢想する時の心の状態が何とも言えない恍惚なのだという。

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.

French literature may be said to begin with the ninth century "Song of Roland," and it has since then churned out masterpiece after masterpiece in every century right up to the present. Beginning with Balzac and Dumas in the early part of the nineteenth century and proceeding to Sartre and Camus at the midpoint of the twentieth, the stories in this collection showcase the talents of some of the greatest French masters of the short story.

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芥川龍之介の処女作。雪の降る日、橋場の玉川軒では一中節の順講が開かれていた。四十歳を超えた人々が集まり、師匠の紫暁、中洲の大将、小川の旦那などが列席している。末席にいるのは「房さん」という本卦返りをした老人だ。かつては茶屋酒に溺れ、金瓶大黒の若太夫との心中沙汰も経験した彼は、玄米問屋の身上をすってしまったが、今では料理屋に引き取られ楽隠居の身となっていた。

A young librarian receives a request for an obscure Hebrew book from a sinister gentleman, unaware of its contents. Montague Rhodes James was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.

The tale of a man who unwittingly angers a sorcerer, who is assumed by some Monty scholars to be based on the self-styled 'Great Beast,' occultist Aleister Crowley. Montague Rhodes James was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】少年は、父が学生時代に古道具屋で購入した外国製の置き時計に親しみを抱いていた。

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美しい出石少女をめぐる神々の物語。秋山の下氷男と春山の霞男という兄弟神がいた。兄が出石少女を嫁にしたいと言うと、弟は自分ならもらえると言い、二人は競争を始める。母神の助けで、弟は藤のつるで着物や弓矢を作り、少女の家へ行く。藤の花が咲き乱れる美しい姿となった弟に、少女は魅了され妻となるが──。