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Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brilliant characters: his fiancée Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth have lifelong repercussions; and Elliot Templeton, her uncle, a classic expatriate American snob. The most ambitious of Maugham's novels, this is also one in which Maugham himself plays a considerable part as he wanders in and out of the story, to observe his characters struggling with their fates.

In the beginning of Paradise Lost, Satan has ben banished to Hell and is working to organize the angels who fell with him and create his new kingdom. While a constant angelic war rages, Satan begins to wield his influence on the first humans created on Earth, and soon tempts them into defying God by using wit and logic to tempt Eve. The actions get Adam and Eve banished from paradise, and in the aftermath of their sin they get to glimpse the future of humanity based on their actions.

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.

Six children - Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis - meet in a garden close to the sea, their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back and forth from the shore. The book follows them as they develop from childhood to maturity and follow different passions and ambitions; their voices are interspersed with interludes from the timeless and unifying chorus of nature.

The Scarlet Letter is one of the great classics of American literature. Set in the harsh Puritan environment of 17th-century Boston, it describes the plight of Hester Prynne, an independent-minded woman who stands alone against society. Having given birth to a child after an illicit affair, she refuses to name the father and is forced to wear the letter "A", for Adulteress, embroidered on her dress.

Long considered one of the best American novels of our time, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver and his passionate affair with a beautiful English nurse. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this gripping semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war as only Hemingway can. A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms paints an intimate portrait of the pain and intensity of a love overshadowed by the inexorable creep of global war.

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.

江戸八百八町においてその名を知らぬ者のない、旗本退屈男と異名をとった直参旗本、早乙女主水之介のチャンバラ活劇オーディオブック。禄は直参旗本の千二百石、屋敷は本所長割下水、剣の奥義は諸羽流正眼崩し、武芸十八般に通ずる無双な腕力、にもかかわらず江戸の天下は腹の立つ程な泰平ぶりを示し、腕を振るうべき戦乱もなく、ために栄達もなく、故にこの人の世が、否生きている事すら迄が、退屈で退屈でならない退屈男。清廉潔白な性格で、権力の腐敗を憂い、一方で庶民に慈悲深く、「長割下水のお殿様」とも慕われる退屈男。「旗本退屈男」は、1930年以来、計30本の映画が製作され、テレビドラマとしても何度もリメイクされている、時代小説家・佐々木味津三による人気時代小説。江戸の天下で繰り広げられる退屈男の痛快な「退屈払い」を、一人十役変幻自在の声色でオーディオブック化!! 「ほほう、これは少々退屈払いが出来そうじゃわい。 ―退屈男」 小気味のいい男の小気味のいいオーディオブックは、これから始まるのです。※本作品は発表時の未熟な時代背景から、今日の社会では一般的でなく、 不適切と思われる表現が含まれている箇所がございます。 しかし作品のオリジナル性を最大限に尊重し、 なるべく当時のまま忠実に再現することを優先いたしました。

The orphaned Mary Lennox is sullen, ill tempered, and unloved when she's sent to live with her uncle, Archibald Craven. A man consumed by grief over the death of his wife, Archibald has allowed his sprawling estate on the moors to fall into grim disrepair. It's when Mary begins tending to her late aunt's mysterious garden - locked up and neglected for years - that she discovers its life-changing secrets and a flowering rejuvenation of the human spirit.

You are walking through the streets of London. It is getting dark and you want to get home quickly. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass the door of a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A man comes out and looks at you. You have never seen him before, but you realize immediately that he hates you. You are shocked to discover, also, that you hate him. Who is this man that everybody hates?

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。

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.

Un viaggiatore, una piccola stazione, una valigia da consegnare a una misteriosa persona... Da questa premessa si possono snodare innumerevoli vicende, ma sono dieci quelle che l'autore propone in questo sorprendente e godibilissimo romanzo. "È un romanzo sul piacere di leggere romanzi: protagonista è il lettore, che per dieci volte cominica a leggere un libro che per vicissitudini estranee alla sua volontà non riesce a finire. Ho dovuto dunque scrivere l'inizio di dieci romanzi d'autori immaginari, tutti in qualche modo diversi da me e diversi tra loro." (Italo Calvino)

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Charles Dickens; Franz Kafka; Herman Melville; Leo Tolstoy, amongst a host of others.

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『宮本武蔵』を生んだ“国民文学作家”が描く女の人生
源義経、楠木正成、豊臣秀吉らの偉業には内助の功があった――

男たちを陰ながら支えた女たちの人生。その中には、英雄豪傑らに比肩する生き様や、涙無しには語れない物語がありました。

「細川ガラシヤ夫人」
明智光秀の娘で、細川忠興の妻として幸せに暮らしていた迦羅奢。本能寺の変によって彼女は、「反逆人の娘」として山の尼院での隠遁を余儀なくされた。やがて天下人となった豊臣秀吉がその境遇に深く同情し、その媒酌により、再び忠興のもとに戻ってきたが、辛い日々の中で命を長らえさせたものはキリスト教への信仰であった。秀吉の死後、徳川家康と石田三成の対立が激化し、家康が上杉討伐の兵を起こした際に、三成は大阪城下の大名方の夫人らを人質にとるべく、細川家の屋敷に軍勢を差し向けた。しかし、迦羅奢はこれを敢然と拒否して、驚くべき手段を取るのだった……

「静御前」
平家を倒した立役者である源義経に見初められた、当代名うての白拍子・静。義経追討令により京を追われた義経は、吉野山の奥深くで静と別れた。やがて、鎌倉方に囚われた静は、頼朝の前で舞いを奉納することになるが、頼朝の意に反して、義経との別れを哀しみ恋うる曲を舞った。それが 「吉野山 峰の白雪踏みわけて...

Dorian Gray, a handsome and narcissistic young man, lives thoughtlessly for his own pleasure. One day, after having his portrait painted, Dorian makes a frivolous Faustian wish: that he should always remain as young and beautiful as he is in that painting, while the portrait grows old in his stead.

The wish comes true, and Dorian soon finds that none of his wicked actions have visible consequences. Realizing that he will appear fresh and unspoiled no matter what kind of life he lives, Dorian becomes increasingly corrupt. Only the portrait grows degenerate and ugly, a powerful symbol of Dorian's internal ruin.

"Animal Farm" is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution - an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?

A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton. Seventeen-year-old Pinkie, malign and ruthless, has killed a man. Believing he can escape retribution, he is unprepared for the courageous, life-embracing Ida Arnold. Greene's gripping thriller exposes a world of loneliness and fear, of life lived on the 'dangerous edge of things.'

新たに原文から忠実に訳された、1000年という時を経て蘇る王朝文学の傑作。平安時代の流麗な文体を現代の簡潔な文体に置き換え、かつ、これまでの現代語訳では重要視されてこなかった有職故実など、『源氏物語』の文化的な側面に光をあてた現代語訳。

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