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Whisked from his comfortable hobbit-hole by Gandalf the wizard and a band of dwarves, Bilbo Baggins finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.

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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日本の各地には、それぞれの土地と深く結びついた、さまざまな伝説が残されています。本書はそうした伝説のうち、平安時代から室町時代にかけて編纂された説話のなかから、日本人の記憶のなかに深く残っている話を中心に、およそ30点を選び出し、あらためて物語として読みやすいかたちにまとめなおしてみたものです。

ここに載せた話のおよそ半分は、こどものころに手にした教科書や、当時、目にした本などをとおして、記憶にあるのではないかと思います。また、古典が好きな方や古典を勉強したことがある方なら、どこかで読んだことのある作品も多いことでしょう。

不思議さのなかにも、かつての日本に暮らしていた人々の生活がじんわりとにじんで見えてくる、日本の伝説。どうぞ、ごゆっくりお味わいください。

※本商品は「世界一なぞめいた日本の伝説・奇譚」(こう書房刊 鳥遊まき著 ISBN:4-7696-0916-7 248頁 1,365円(税込))をオーディオ化したものです。

本オーディオブックを全部走りながらお聴きいただいたら、約 44 km、2640 kcal 消費できます。

近代で最初に『源氏物語』を訳した与謝野晶子は、それぞれの帖の冒頭に、その帖の内容をふまえた歌を一首詠んでいます。その晶子の歌もすべて収録しています。

死地に赴く父、勲士トマス・レミュエル・ホーク最後の手紙。命で繋ぐ20の智慧と生き方の物語。俳優イーサン・ホークが贈る、人生がもたらす意味と美しさを描いた珠玉の短編集。

《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。

Undoubtedly one of the most celebrated tales of all time, this is both high-octane thriller and fascinating travelogue. Phileas Fogg, intrepid Victorian gentleman about town, accepts a wager that he cannot travel around the world in 80 days. Naturally, he immediately sets off, accompanied by his French manservant, Passepartout. They are pursued by a police officer, Detective Fix, who is foolishly convinced that Fogg is a bank robber. Much hilarity ensues.

The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O’Hara soon realises that young men can’t resist her charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother’s ladylike ways. She enters into an early marriage, but when the war between the Union and the Southern States breaks out and she is left a young widow, Scarlett’s life is turned upside down, and she finds herself embroiled, together with the world surrounding her, in a long struggle for survival.

A collection of BBC Radio 3's iconic Shakespeare productions: eight comedies with all-star casts including David Tennant, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Martin Jarvis, Siân Phillips and Miriam Margolyes. The plays included in this collection are: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, and All's Well That Ends Well.

In what is considered one of Heinlein's most hair-raising, thought-provoking, and outrageous adventures, the master of modern science fiction tells the strange story of an even stranger world. It is 21st-century Luna, a harsh penal colony where a revolt is plotted between a bashful computer and a ragtag collection of maverick humans, a revolt that goes beautifully until the inevitable happens. But that's the problem with the inevitable: it always happens.

A young woman is in love with a successful surgeon, a man torn between his love for her and his incorrigible womanizing. His mistress, a free-spirited artist, lives her life as a series of betrayals—while her other lover, earnest, faithful, and good, stands to lose everything because of his noble qualities. In a world where lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and fortuitous events, and everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. Hence we feel “the unbearable lightness of being."

It is the year 12,020 GE and Emperor Cleon I sits uneasily on the Imperial throne of Trantor. Here in the great multidomed capital of the Galactic Empire, 40 billion people have created a civilization of unimaginable technological and cultural complexity. Yet Cleon knows there are those who would see him fall - those whom he would destroy if only he could read the future.

To bitter, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, Christmas is just another day. But all that changes when the ghost of his long-dead business partner appears, alongside the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come, warning Scrooge to change his ways before it's too late.

Who wants to live in a house, wear clean clothes, be good, and go to school every day? Not young Huckleberry Finn, that’s for sure.So Huck runs away, and is soon floating down the great Mississippi River on a raft. With him is Jim, a black slave who is also running away. But life is not always easy for the two friends. And there’s 300 dollars waiting for anyone who catches poor Jim.

In this short book illuminated by a deep understanding and love of humanity, John Steinbeck retells an old Mexican folk tale: the story of the great pearl, how it was found, and how it was lost. For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dream blinds him to the greed and suspicions the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors, and even his loving wife cannot temper his obsession or stem the events leading to the tragedy. For Steinbeck, Kino and his wife illustrate the fall from innocence of people who believe that wealth erases all problems.

内大臣と源氏の君は若い時分から親友どうしでしたが、最近は夕霧と雲居の雁のこともあり、交友が途絶えがちになっております。これではいつ本当の父に会えるのかと危惧する玉鬘に、源氏の君は恋慕をあらわにします。 まだ何も御存じない内大臣は、昔よその女に生ませた近江の君という大変風変わりな娘を引き取りました。

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仰々しく引き取られた挙げ句、人前にさらされ嘲弄の的となってしまった近江の君。その噂を聞くにつれ、玉鬘は最初に源氏の君のもとへ身を寄せたことを幸運に思うのでした。 そして、決して無理強いはしない源氏の君の態度に、心を許してゆきます。篝火のもと、身を寄せる二人に夕霧と柏木の合奏する音色が届きます。

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石清水八幡宮への参詣途中で、奇しくも再会を果たした右近と三条、そして姫君・玉鬘。 夕顔の忘れ型見をお世話したい、と、前々からお考えになっていた源氏の君は、入念な準備ののち、玉鬘をご自分の娘として六条の院に引き取りました。年の暮れ、源氏の君は玉鬘にもほかの方々と御同列のお世話をし、衣装などをさし上げました。

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Moby-Dick is widely considered to be the Great American Novel and a treasure of world literature. The story details the adventures of the wandering sailor Ishmael and his voyage on the whale ship Pequod, commanded by Captain Ahab. Ishmael soon learns that Ahab seeks one specific whale: Moby Dick, a ferocious, enigmatic white sperm whale. In a previous encounter, the whale destroyed Ahab's boat and bit off his leg. And Ahab intends to take revenge.

Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu wrote The Tale of Genji in the 11th century to entertain the other women in the court. It follows the romantic exploits of the title character, an emperor’s son, as he navigates life within aristocratic society and eventually outside of it. Praised for its psychological insight into the characters’ motivations, the book greatly influenced Japanese culture and is widely considered the world’s first novel. In 1882, Suematsu Kencho translated a condensed version of the text into English, allowing this classic tale to reach a wider audience.