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By the time Shakespeare came to write Macbeth - almost certainly in 1605/1606 - he had already completed three of the great tragedies with which modern audiences are so familiar: Hamlet (1601), Othello (1603), and King Lear (1605). Each of those plays gives us an eponymous hero who is in some significant way flawed, but for whom we also inevitably feel deep sympathy, whatever his errors or crimes. But in MacBeth, Shakespeare has chosen for his tragic hero a man guilty of the most terrible crime imaginable to a Jacobean audience, that of regicide - the murder of a king.

Collected for the first time, here are the New York stories of one of the 20th century’s definitive chroniclers of the city - the speakeasies and highballs, social climbers and cinema stars, mistresses and powerbrokers, unsparingly observed by a popular American master of realism. Spanning his four-decade career, these more than 30 refreshingly frank, sparely written stories are among John O’Hara’s finest work, exploring the materialist aspirations and sexual exploits of flawed, prodigally human characters and showcasing the snappy dialogue.

Twelfth Night, nowadays one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most-admired comedies, was not always so regarded: Samuel Pepys saw the play three times in the 1660s and judged it 'silly'. Modern audiences, critics, and directors seem better attuned to its delicate counter pointing of romance and realism....

人買いに騙され母と離れてしまった安寿と厨子王は、荘園領主・山椒大夫に売られ奴隷としてこき使われる。やがて二人は母が佐渡にいることを知り、厨子王はついに荘園からの脱走を計る…。

中の君と思いを通わせる匂宮ですが、母・明石の中宮から諌められ、宇治を訪ねることができません。十月の初め頃、薫の君は匂宮におすすめして、宇治への紅葉狩りの手筈を整えて差し上げますが、これがとても大仰なことになってしまいましたので、結局、匂宮は山荘を素通りせざるを得ませんでした。大君は中の君を心配します。

Awe and exhilaration—along with heartbreak and mordant wit—abound in Lolita, which tells the story of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsession for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America.

秋、源氏の君の御一行もいらっしゃっているとは知らず、住吉神社にお詣りになった明石の君は、その後威勢のほどを目の当たりにし、我が身が情けなく、また、切ない恋しさも募りました。伊勢からお戻りになった六条の御息所(みやすどころ)は、間もなく病のためお亡くなりあそばしました。その遺言により源氏の君は前斎宮(ぜんさいぐう)の御後見となられました。

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Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.

Little Women, closely based on Louisa May Alcott’s own experience of family life, was first published in 1869 and follows the lives of the four March sisters and their mother, "Marmee". With the heartrending story of gentle Beth, the humorous adventures of tomboyish Jo, Meg’s vain attempts to cut a fashionable figure in "society", and the artistic ambitions of the youngest sister Amy, it has never lost its extraordinary power to move and delight.

In this new recording, Paapa Essiedu breathes new life into the classic tale. Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy follows a respectable London lawyer as he investigates the strange relationship between his old friend Dr Henry Jekyll and the evil Edward Hyde. Its sensitive portrayal of man's dual nature is moving, beautiful and terrifying in equal measure.

Kernphysiker Möbius, Entdecker einer furchtbaren und gefährlichen Formel, flüchtet, seine Familie preisgebend, ins Irrenhaus. Er spielt Irrsinn, er fingiert die Heimsuchung durch den Geist Salomos, um das, was er entdeckte, als Produkt des Irrsinns zu diffamieren. Doch zwei Geheimagenten, ebenfalls als Wahnsinnige getarnt, sind ihm auf der Spur.

With the same suppleness, energy, and range of voices that won their translation of The Brothers Karamazov the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Prize, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky offer a brilliant translation of Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky's astounding pyschological thriller, newly revised for his bicentenniel.

"""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。

「ある人は楽しみ、ある者は試され、善き人には喜び、悪しき者には恐れとなる、 また誤解をなしたりほどいたり、そんな私めの名前は「時の流れ」と申しますゆえ、 これからこの私めの翼を用いまして、ひとっ飛び致しましょう。
およそ十六年間をするりと抜けまして、そのあいだのことは、流れたこととなりますが、...

Strazio e incanto, insieme a scintillante ironia, abbondano in Lolita, il romanzo più celebre di Nabokov che racconta la storia dell'ossessiva e fatale passione del professor Humbert Humbert per la "ninfetta" Dolores Haze. Motel dopo motel, la vicenda si snoda lungo le strade americane nella forma di una confessione onesta e disperata. Meraviglioso romanzo, ha ispirato l'omonimo film di Stanley Kubrick.

Ten years ago, Mary Morstan’s father, an officer in an Indian regiment, vanished. Four years later, elegant pearls began to arrive, six in total, and now she holds an invitation to meet her mysterious anonymous benefactor. As Miss Morstan shares this peculiar tale with Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, she urges the detectives to accompany her. Her only clues to her father’s disappearance: a map of a fortress with the names of four strangers and an assertion that she’s been dreadfully wronged.

The Metamorphosis is a story about a man who wakes up transformed into a bug and the repercussions it has on his life and the people around him. What does it all mean? It is most probably an autobiography of how Kafka himself experienced early life living with his parents. Kafka describes how he endured his mother and father's financial and emotional exploitations, to the point of detaching from them and thereby ceasing to be their son (the real metamorphosis).

A story by Edgar Allan Poe about a black cat, or rather two black cats. The narrator relates his own story about how he deteriorated from a man who loved animals to a cruel abuser. He thought that he had gotten away with murder, but the second black cat exposed his crime.

匂宮との一件を知り、中将の君は急ぎ浮舟を以前から用意してあった三条の家へ移しました。せっかく親しみが湧いてきたのに、と残念そうな中の君。完成した御堂を視察しに宇治へお出かけになった薫の君は、浮舟の行方を知る弁の尼を京へ遣わします。そして間もなく、自らの三条の隠れ家に現れ、浮舟を御車に乗せ、連れて行ってしまいました。

Mary Lennox is a sad and sickly girl. She acts bitter to everyone around her and doesn’t mind that she doesn’t have friends; she doesn’t need them. When she moves to a dark, gloomy manor to live with her uncle, she has no interest in exploring her new home - until she learns that there is a secret locked garden somewhere on the grounds.