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The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the popular 1902 Broadway musical and the well-known 1939 film adaptation. The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the Land of Oz, after being swept away from her Kansas farm home in a cyclone. The novel is one of the best-known stories in American popular culture and has been widely translated. Its initial success, and the success of the 1902 Broadway musical which Baum adapted from his original story, led to Baum's writing 13 additional Oz books.

A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families' consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sosuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Sosuke's brash younger brother. While an unlikely new friendship appears to offer a way out of this bind, it also soon threatens to dredge up a past that could once again force them to flee the capital.

"1984", le livre légendaire écrit par George Orwell, enfin disponible dans une nouvelle traduction française. Un regard terrifiant sur l'avenir et une menace très claire sur ce que pourrait être notre futur, avec un État omniprésent et ultra-répressif. 1984 est le livre incontournable de l'anticipation distopique. L'histoire : Dans le futur, le monde a été divisé en trois empires qui se combattent en permanence : L'Océanie, l'Asie de l'Est et l'Eurasie. "1984" se passe à Londres, dans l'Océanie, une dictature.

智恵子夫人への深い愛の詩集。恋愛、結婚、彼女の発病と死後までの30年間にわたって書かれた。智恵子夫人は日本の洋画家。1911年に光太郎と出会い、恋愛、そして結婚。実家の破産・一家離散などから心労が多く、1931年頃から精神を病み始め（統合失調症）大量の睡眠薬を飲み自殺を図る。未遂に終わったがその後も症状は進行し、1938年に肺結核のため死去。

Celebrating its 75th anniversary, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men remains one of America's most widely read and beloved novels. Here is Steinbeck’s dramatic adaptation of his novel-as-play, which received the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play in 1937-1938 and has featured a number of actors who have played the iconic roles of George and Lennie on stage and film, including James Earl Jones, John Malkovich and Gary Sinise.

George Orwell's nineteen Eighty-Four is one of the most definitive texts of modern literature. Set in Oceania, one of the three inter-continental superstate that divided the world among themselves after a global war, Orwell's masterful critique of the political structures of the time, works itself out through the story of Winston Smith, a man caught in the webs of a dystopian future, and his clandestine love affair with Julia, a young woman he meets during the course of his work for the government.

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『源氏物語』全五十四帖 与謝野晶子による現代語訳をすべて朗読し、
オーディオ化しました。

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。

第八帖 花宴 はなのえん
光源氏 二十歳
主な登場人物 朧月夜

春の夜のもやにそひたる月ならん
手枕かしぬ我が仮ぶしに

二月、紫宸殿（ししんでん）で桜の宴があった。頭中将（とうのちゅうじょう）たちとともに披露した光源氏の詩と舞はすばらしく、人々を驚嘆させたが、藤壺の心は複雑であった。
宴の後、源氏は藤壺にひと目会いたいと藤壺の御殿の辺りをうかがい歩くが入り込む隙もなく、そのまま弘徽殿の細殿付近へとさまよい歩く。そこで「朧月夜に似るものぞなき」と口ずさむ女性と出会い、一夜を共にする。
素性も分からぬまま扇を取り交わして別れるが、この女性は東宮に入内することになっている右大臣の姫君朧月夜（おぼろづきよ）なのではないかと源氏は思う。
源氏も朧月夜もお互いを思い焦がれていた折、右大臣家で藤の宴が催された。招かれた源氏は、そこで朧月夜と再会するので

"Du côté de chez Swann" et "Le temps retrouvé", au commencement et à la fin de l'œuvre, sont deux arches, parallèles dans leur construction et leur projet, sur lesquelles s'appuie l'immense cathédrale de "La recherche". Ce sont ces deux textes qui définissent le mieux ce qu'est l'ouvrage, l'histoire d'une vocation, la découverte du salut par l'écriture.

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.

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『源氏物語』全五十四帖 与謝野晶子による現代語訳をすべて朗読し、
オーディオ化しました。

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。

第十四帖 澪標 みおつくし
光源氏 二八～二九歳
主な登場人物 明石の君、紫の上、六条御息所

みをつくし逢はんと祈るみてぐらも
われのみ神に奉るらん

都に返り咲いた光源氏は内大臣として政界の実権を握るようになる。朱雀帝は退位し、元服した東宮が冷泉帝（れいぜいてい）となって即位した。
明石の君が女児を出産したとの知らせを受け、源氏は喜び、すぐれた乳母や祝いの品を明石へ送る。そんな源氏の様子に紫の上は嫉妬する。
秋になり、源氏は住吉へお礼参りに出た。毎年の恒例行事として同じくその場へ来合わせていた明石の君は、源氏一行のきらびやかな様子を見て、自身の身分の低さを嘆き、引き返してしまうのだった。
六条御息所（ろくじょうのみやすどころ）は娘の斎宮（さいぐう）とともに帰京し、病に伏していたが、

Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.... The novel begins in Monte Carlo, where our heroine is swept off her feet by the dashing widower Maxim de Winter and his sudden proposal of marriage. Orphaned and working as a lady's maid, she can barely believe her luck. It is only when they arrive at his massive country estate that she realizes how large a shadow his late wife will cast over their lives - presenting her with a lingering evil that threatens to destroy their marriage from beyond the grave.

This collection of timeless British and American poems is an experience to be treasured. The readings, by brilliant classic actors Alexander Scourby, Nancy Wickwire, and Bramwell Fletcher, are presented in the order they appear in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition, and are selected for their ability to delight. The poetry is also among the most anthologized verse in the English language.

This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky.

The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age. It was written when Virginia Woolf was at the height of her experimental powers, and she allows each character to tell their own story, through powerful, poetic monologues. By listening to these voices struggling to impose order and meaning on their lives, we are drawn into a literary journey that stunningly reproduces the complex, confusing and contradictory nature of human experience. It is read with affection and skill by Frances Jeater.

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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...

有个老人独自在海上捕鱼，接连几个月没有收获，后来他钓到一条很大的旗鱼，跟它缠斗了两天两夜，用鱼枪把它刺死；但在返回的途中遇到鲨鱼的袭击…… 有個老人獨自在海上捕魚，接連幾個月沒有收穫，後來他釣到一條很大的旗魚，跟它纏鬥了兩天兩夜，用魚槍把它刺死；但在返回的途中遇到鯊魚的襲擊……

At twenty-nine, Valancy Stirling is an “old maid” trapped within the tedium and troubles of family life. She escapes by building the imaginary world of the Blue Castle. When she is diagnosed with a serious heart ailment, Valancy realizes she has never been happy. She doesn’t want to waste what time she has left. She seizes the moment. This catalyst for change leads her on towards relationships and entanglements far beyond what she could have predicted, including with a mysterious man known as Barney Snaith.

Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping. Larry Niven's novel, Ringworld, is the winner of the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

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.