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A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Like most people left behind on an over-populated Earth, New York City police detective Elijah Baley had little love for either the arrogant Spacers or their robotic companions.

読み聞かせでもなく、サウンドドラマでもない。オーディオブックならではの圧倒的な表現力。誰もが知っている"はず"のシェイクスピア作品をダイジェストにして続々お届けします。 「さあ、聞かせてくれ、郷《さと》の様子はどうだ？...

【解説】 源氏物語当時、高貴な女人の部屋に忍び込むのには、側近の女房の助けなしには不可能でした。父帝の妃にして義母である藤壺への想いに駆られる源氏は、藤壺の女房、王命婦に藤壺との密会をせがみます。顔も知らない亡き生母桐壺の更衣に瓜二つの藤壺。密会は、源氏にとっても藤壺にとっても、手引きをする王命婦にとっても、身の破滅につながる出来事です。それを実現させたのは、王命婦の源氏への恋心があったからでは―と語る瀬戸内寂聴氏。寂聴の描く熱くも哀しい男女の恋路をご堪能下さい。 底本：講談社文庫『藤壺』 【朗読時間】５１分４４秒 【朗読】wis ※透明感と落ち着きのある声で親しまれている女性朗読家です。

One of the most significant books ever written by a head of state, the Meditations are a collection of philosophical thoughts by the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 ce). Covering issues such as duty, forgiveness, brotherhood, strength in adversity and the best way to approach life and death, the Meditations have inspired thinkers, poets and politicians since their first publication more than 500 years ago. Today, the book stands as one of the great guides and companions - a cornerstone of Western thought.

"""平家の怨霊に祟られた場所、壇ノ浦。その霊を鎮める為に建てられた阿彌陀寺に、盲目の琵琶師・芳一が住んでいた。ある晩その技量を求め『ある高貴な方の家来』を名乗る侍が芳一の許を訪れる…。怪奇文学作品集「怪談」（1904年）より、表題作「耳無芳一の話」の他、「葬られたる秘密」「狢」計３編を収録。

George Orwell's timeless and timely allegorical novel - a scathing satire on a downtrodden society's blind march towards totalitarianism. The book tells the story of a group of farm animals who rebel against their human farmer, hoping to create a society where the animals can be equal, free, and happy. Ultimately, however, the rebellion is betrayed, and the farm ends up in a state as bad as it was before, under the dictatorship of a pig named Napoleon.

On the eve of his marriage to the beautiful Mercedes, having that very day been made captain of his ship, the young sailor Edmond Dantès is arrested on a charge of treason, trumped up by jealous rivals. Incarcerated for many lonely years in the isolated and terrifying Chateau d'If near Marseille, he meticulously plans his brilliant escape and extraordinary revenge.

Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales as told by the Grimm Brothers (also known as Brothers Grimm), Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, first published on 20 December 1812. In this collection of 62 fairy tales, you will find Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, the Frog-Prince and Snow White and Rose Red, among other timeless works.

《孟子》是《四书》之一，记录了孟子的治国思想、政治观点（仁政、王霸之辨、民本、格君心之非，民为贵社稷次之君为轻）和政治行动，属儒家经典著作。…… 《孟子》是《四書》之一，記錄了孟子的治國思想、政治觀點（仁政、王霸之辨、民本、格君心之非，民為貴社稷次之君為輕）和政治行動，屬儒家經典著作。

六条の御息所(みやすどころ)は、源氏の君への一切の未練を断ち切るため、斎宮(さいぐう)について伊勢へ下向す 　る決心をなさいました。お名残惜しくお手紙を交わし、六条の御息所を見送ると、源氏 　の君はうら淋しくなり、物思いに沈むのでした。 　ご病気を悪くされた桐壺院は、後々のことは源氏の君を頼るよう帝に遺言し、お崩(かく)れに 　なってしまいました。

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This is another beautifully crafted and nurturing Burnett tale about a young girl growing up, learning humility and compassion...the hard way. Sara Crewe’s young life is filled with wealth and pampering. But when her father dies in India and his wealth is lost, like a hot-house plant cast into the snow her life is reduced to shear survival. Turned into a beggar, her courage and strong-will are all she inherited from her father.

"怒涛の４時間！　ＣＤ３枚組！！低賃金で酷使される蟹工船の労働者たちの闘いを描く、２００８年異例の４０万部増版でブームとなった超話題作。

In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through the eastern United States. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation’s evolving politics. His insightful work has become one of the most influential political texts ever written on America.

Emma can be enjoyed as a charming love story, a detective story, and a comic and lively picture of English life 200 years ago. Austen's beautiful, clever, wilful but fallible heroine Emma Woodhouse believes she knows best. Perfectly content with her life she sees no need for either love or marriage, yet nothing pleases her more than meddling in the romantic lives of others.

オペラ抜粋朗読劇　第５弾は「ウェーバー　魔弾の射手　より」第一幕　抜粋。こちらは、本作品のための書き下ろし台本。

In the century's darkest time, one man became the most unlikely of heroes. German-Catholic industrialist and Nazi Party member Oskar Schindler used his wealth and influence to save the lives of more than 1,300 Jews who would have otherwise died in the concentration camp at Plaszow. Here is the story on which Steven Spielberg based his powerful motion picture. If you like this, try Ursula Hegi's Stones from a River.

Heinrich Heines „Harzreise“ gehört zu der Reihe der Reisebilder, die er in sehr frühen Jahren seines literarischen Schaffens schrieb. Es ist ein prosaischer Text voll Ironie und Sarkasmus. In den Text eingewoben sind einige wenige lyrische Abschnitte, die sich bemerkenswert vorzüglich in den Text einfügen. Jeder, der dieses Buch hört, wird es lieben.

Best-selling books have played a critical role in influencing the tastes and purchasing habits of American readers for more than 100 years. But there is more to America's great best-selling books than the sales figures they rake in. American bestsellers also offer us ways to appreciate and understand particular periods of American culture.In this series of 24 lectures you'll enjoy a pointed look at key best-selling works and their places within the greater fabric of American cultural history.

Botchan es un indiscutible clásico de la moderna literatura japonesa y, desde hace más de cien años, una de las novelas más celebradas por los lectores de aquel país. Considerada el Huckleberry Finn nipón, y comparada también con El guardián entre el centeno, narra las aventuras de Botchan, un joven tokiota descreído y cínico, alter ego de Soseki, al que mandan como profesor a una escuela rural situada en la remota isla de Shikoku.

A groundbreaking work of science fiction, The Left Hand of Darkness tells the story of a lone human emissary to Winter, an alien world whose inhabitants can change their gender. His goal is to facilitate Winter's inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf between his own views and those of the completely dissimilar culture that he encounters. Embracing the aspects of psychology, society, and human emotion on an alien world, The Left Hand of Darkness stands as a landmark achievement.

So what would Al Gore choose if he had a book club? Gore named Stendhal's The Red and the Black, a 19th century classic chock full of adultery, betrayal, and moral vacuity, as his favorite book on a recent broadcast of Oprah. It's a bit shocking of a choice, given his wife and running mate's position on clean, wholesome literature. Listen and decide for yourself the merit of this presidential pick.

Joss Ackland, Roger Allam, and Leslie Phillips star in this BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel. When poverty drives Jean Valjean to steal a loaf of bread from a baker’s window, it is an action that will haunt him for the rest of his life. A citizen of postrevolutionary France, he is sentenced to nineteen years’ hard labour.

Personaggio buffo e melanconico, Marcovaldo è il protagonista d'una serie di favole moderne, dove Italo Calvino va segnando avvenimenti impercettibili nella vita di una grande città industriale. Partite come divagazioni comico-poetiche sul tema della più elementare lotta per la vita, le venti favole di Marcovaldo arrivano alla rappresentazione della più complicata realtà d’oggi, alla satira del "miracolo economico" e della "civiltà del consumo"; ma sempre restano fedeli a una classica struttura narrativa: quella delle storielle a vignette dei giornalini per l'infanzia.

The modern audience hasn't had a chance to truly appreciate the unknowing dread that readers would have felt when reading Bram Stoker's original 1897 manuscript. Most modern productions employ campiness or sound effects to try to bring back that gothic tension, but we've tried something different. By returning to Stoker's original storytelling structure - a series of letters and journal entries voiced by Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing, and other characters - with an all-star cast of narrators, we've sought to recapture its originally intended horror and power.

Utopia is the name given by Sir Thomas More to an imaginary island in this political work written in 1516. Book I of Utopia, a dialogue, presents a perceptive analysis of contemporary social, economic, and moral ills in England. Book II is a narrative describing a country run according to the ideals of the English humanists, where poverty, crime, injustice, and other ills do not exist.

Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: Should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio's own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father's will, Portia's many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets. Bassanio arrives at Portia's estate and they declare their love for one another before he picks the correct casket.

「ハル公、おれが戦場でぶっ倒れたら、上にまたがって防いでくれよな。それが友情ってもんだろう？
名誉？ それがぐさりとしやがる。いざってとき、その名誉が自分を大けがさせたらどうするね？
なくした手足を治してくれるか？ 痛み止めになるか？名誉は手当の名人か？
そんなのありゃしねえ。
じゃあ何だ名誉ってのは。言葉だ。なら名誉って言葉はなんなんだ？ 何者だ名誉って。


……空気だ。結構なお勘定じゃねえか。
誰が名誉を持ってるよ。水曜日に死んだあの男か？名誉を実感してんのか？ いいや。


名誉が耳に響いてるか？ いいや。
なら感じないものか？ その通り、死人にはな。
じゃあ生きてれば、名誉も生きてるってか？
んなこたあない。なぜか？...

病の治まった源氏の君は、帰京したものの、妻・葵の上とは相変わらず心が通わず、し 　きりと北山へ文を送る毎日。そんなとき、藤壺の宮が体調を崩されました。源氏の君と 　の一度きりの逢瀬の末、御子を身籠ってしまわれたのです。己が罪を嘆く藤壺の宮は、 　源氏の君の文に返事もせず、参内されても決してお会いになろうとはしませんでした。

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源氏の君は流罪などという辱めを受ける前に、自ら都を離れるご決心をなさいます。が、 それにしても、愛しい人々との別れはつらいものでございました。幼い若君はじめ前左大巨のお邸の方々、藤壺の尼宮、東宮、朧月夜の君、花散里の君、そしてとりわけ紫の上の涙するご様子は、堪えがたいほど悲しくてなりませんでした。

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とある町に、幸福の王子と呼ばれる像が建っていました。その像はとても美しく、目にはサファイアが、剣のつかにはルビーが。