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Felix Grandet, having married well and become a wealthy landowner and wine-grower, is a miser who watches like a hawk the sugar lumps and the bread slices. The question of who will marry his daughter and inherit his fortune fuels endless speculation in the town of Saumur. The arrival of Eugénie’s cousin sparks feelings and a resolve that puts her on a collision course with her father’s control. As the years pass and she must navigate the self-interest of potential suitors, we see how habits manifest themselves in a new generation.

The year is 1866; the American Civil War is at its height. Five prisoners of war hatch an audacious plan to escape their camp by balloon. After a perilous 6,000-mile journey in a fierce storm, they are ‘shipwrecked’ on an unknown Pacific island. What follows is a thrilling tale of resourcefulness, courage and suspense. Together with our heroes we learn to hunt, to make weapons and pottery, to calculate our position by the sun, to extract iron and even to make explosives from the island’s remarkable natural resources.

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."

Under the Sea Wind is a classic wilderness adventure to which all nature writing is compared. The hero of Under the Sea Wind is soon seen to be life itself, that quicksilver prize granted, for a brief time only, to the clever and the fortunate.

The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatments of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading in US high school and university composition classes. The original 1918 edition of The Elements of Style detailed eight elementary rules of usage, 10 elementary principles of composition, a few matters of form, and a list of commonly "misused" words and expressions.

The narrator and central character of The Adolescent is Arkady Dolgoruky, a naive 19-year-old boy full of ambition and opinions. The illegitimate son of a dissipated landowner, he is torn between his desire to expose his father’s wrongdoing and the desire to win his love. He travels to St. Petersburg to confront the father he barely knows, inspired by an inchoate dream of communion and armed with a mysterious document that he believes gives him power over others.

「・・・みんなちがって、みんないい」の『私と小鳥と鈴と』をはじめ、『芒とお日さま』、『りんご畑』、『こころ』、『世界中の王様』など。みずゞ後期の作品を（１）（２）あわせて8３作品収録。

In these stories an excellent host finds himself turned out of home by his own guests; a woman spends her wedding day frantically searching for her husband-to-be; and in Shirley Jackson's best-known story, a small farming village comes together for a terrible annual ritual. The creeping unease of lives squandered and the bloody glee of lives lost is chillingly captured in these tales of wasted potential and casual cruelty by a master of the short story.

「智恵子抄」より17編を抜粋。

山本周五郎は「文学には“純”も“不純”もなく、“大衆”も“少数”もない。ただ“よい小説”と“わるい小説”があるばかりだ」を信念とし、普遍妥当性をもつ人間像の造形を生涯の目的とした作家で、時代小説を中心に沢山の作品を残しています。
　その作風は今なお古臭さを感じさせず、繊細に描かれた人の心の機微や人情に、思わず笑わされたり、胸を打たれたりする魅力に溢れています。

＜あらすじ＞
一人の若侍が練り馬場と呼ばれる草原へ入って来た。しかし、七つの鐘を聞いて起きてきたはずの彼であったが、間もなく七つの鐘が鳴り、刻を間違えたことを悟った。約束の六つ半まで三時間あるが、辺りは酷く寒い。川岸をしばし歩いた彼は、橋の下に焚火が燃えていたのを目にした。近付いて見ると、「夫婦乞食」と呼ばれている老夫婦が鍋を掛けており、「よろしかったら、こちらへ来ておあたりになりませんか」と声を掛けられた。
　若侍はそれに応じて火に当たったが、老人たちの荷物の中に刀の柄が見えた。若侍が尋ねると、老人は元侍であることを告白し、若侍は時間潰しがてら、その告白に耳を傾けるのだった……

＜山本周五郎＞
1903～67年。小説家。山梨の生まれ。本名・清水三十六(さとむ)。名は生まれ年からつけられ、筆名は東京で徒弟として住み込んだ質屋「山本周五郎商

源氏の院に密通を知らされた柏木は、恥ずかしさと畏れ多さで気分が悪くなり、引きこもってしまいました。源氏の院は、女三の宮を不憫に思う反面、それもこれも宮の思慮が足りないからだ、と他の女君たちと比べながらお考えです。朱雀院五十の御賀の試楽に参加した柏木は、苦痛のあまり宴席の途中で退出。 そのまま重病に陥りました。

(毎週水曜配信予定、全68/113巻)

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.

"光源氏の次男として高貴で恵まれた日々を送る薫を主人公にした物語。薫に囲われていたが、薫とその幼馴染の匂宮との間で心を揺り動かされ入水してしまった浮舟。死んだと思われていた彼女が生存していると知り、薫は山里で尼となった浮舟に会いに行く。

Slices of 19th-century London life from the pen of Charles Dickens. Here are 10 gloriously comic stories from Sketches by Boz, Charles Dickens's earliest collection of short pieces in which he honed his literary genius. Each tale is dramatised with a full cast. Cast and credits: written by Charles Dickens. Directed by Sally Avens. Starring Nicholas Farrell as Boz.

Treasure Island is a timeless classic of adventure and piracy, following the young Jim Hawkins as he embarks on a thrilling quest for buried treasure. Along the way, Jim encounters a cast of unforgettable characters, including the enigmatic Long John Silver, a one-legged pirate with his own mysterious agenda. The story is filled with excitement, danger, and the spirit of adventure as Jim navigates treacherous seas, mutiny, and a battle for the ultimate pirate prize.

"""世界怪談名作集より コスモ・ フォン・ウェルスタールはプラーグの大学生であった。ある日友人に付き添って訪れた骨董店で、埃だらけの古い鏡を見つける。買い取って自室の壁にかけたその鏡の中には、美しい女性が呪いにより封じ込められていた…。

Here is the full-cast production of Shakespeare's classic love story, fully dramatized from the complete text, and starring Michael Sheen as Romeo and Kate Beckinsale as Juliet.

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