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結核が死病だった時代、有島武郎の妻は愛児を遺して死ぬ。遺していかねばならない幼い子ども達への、狂おしいほどの愛情を、夫は子どもらの誕生から説き起こし、少ない母との思い出のよすがとしてやるのだった……愛情に満ちた語り口調が優しく切ない有島武郎の名編。 【朗読者について】NPO法人現代朗読協会員の春日玲は、日頃のつっこみキャラとは対照的な優しい語り口調が持ち味。作品の雰囲気にマッチした声が、死が迫る切なさとあわせて心に迫ります。 【アイ文庫について】 プロによる高品質な文芸朗読作品を制作しているアイ文庫。プロデューサーを務める小説家・音楽家の水城雄のもと、朗読を音声による芸術表現として捉え、演劇的な要素が特徴の朗読で魅せるアーティスト集団・NPO法人現代朗読協会とともに、意欲作の創造に取り組んでいます。 ☆ことのは出版のオーディオブック情報「http://www.kotonoha.co.jp」にて

いつか来たときの列車で向いの席にいた声の美しい女性の葉子は、駒子の家の若い病人を看病していたが、その病人も亡くなった。その後毎日、墓に参っていた。葉子は、湯に入るといつも澄んだ声で歌うのだった。駒子の使いでやって来た葉子と話すと、いずれ東京にいくので一緒に連れて行ってほしいという。ある日の早朝、駒子は宿の裏の坂を上ってそっと島村の部屋にやってきた。その夜も泥酔して島村の宿に立ち寄った。「君はいい女だね」という言葉に突然怒りだす。島村は、いつか駒子が通ってくるのを心待つにする気持ちになりながら、他方で自分のわがままに呵責が募るのであった。もうこれからは来られないだろうと思いながら長逗留を続けた晩秋のある日、島村の乗る車に飛び乗ってきた駒子と街を歩く。そこに突然、半鐘が鳴り出した。映画上映が行われている繭倉が火事だという。二人は駆けだした・・・。

Arapaho attorney Vicki Holden and Father John O'Malley must find the link between the murder of a woman—and the murder of her ancestor from a century earlier...

Japanese myths present a significant barrier to entry for Westerners. The primary sources are arcane, and their translations are not accessible to the non-specialist. Japanese deities (kami) have multiple, long names, and the myths exist in different and conflicting versions. Finally, the sheer...

Vers 1870, à Elbeuf, une ville au bord des mutations voit s’entrecroiser des destins où l’ambition, l’argent et l’honneur se disputent les cœurs. Dans ce roman de mœurs, Hector Malot scrute avec une précision implacable les engrenages sociaux qui élèvent ou brisent une vie, tandis que le hasard — comme au baccara — pèse sur les choix et les consciences.

Porté par l’audace scientifique du XIXe siècle, le Baltimore Gun Club se lance dans un projet insensé: atteindre la Lune par un trajet direct en 97 heures 20 minutes. Entre calculs vertigineux et défis d’ingénierie, se dessine une aventure où l’imagination rivalise avec la rigueur. Chronique d’un défi collectif et d’un rêve humain, ce classique visionnaire préfigure les grands récits de l’espace et explore la frontière entre spéculation scientifique et exploit. Embarquez pour une odyssée haletante vers l’inconnu.

When Yvette Dubois's husband inherits a remote chateau, she reluctantly leaves Lyon behind – only for Armand to abandon her there to manage the vineyard alone. Everything changes the day she hears a mysterious knocking in the library. Behind a tapestry, she discovers a hidden tunnel – along with two frightened orphans. Yvette vows to continue the important work, wanting to honour the legacy. But Armand insists their safety depends on appeasing the occupiers.

In this evocative retelling of the real-life German-born Jewish immigrants known as the Ritchie Boys, That Such Men Live is a gritty and emotional story of sacrifice, war, and maintaining hope when all seems lost.

Brought to you by Penguin. A musical prodigy and his mother spend years searching for each other in this beautiful, sweeping novel of hope, perseverance, and love, from Jenna Bush Hager’s Thousand Voices imprint Song is a nobody—just a food delivery worker from a village in Northeastern...

Au cœur de la campagne française de la fin du XIXe siècle, Angèle Méraud avance sur la ligne ténue qui sépare ce que l’on est de ce que l’on attend de vous. Dans une communauté où chaque regard pèse, ses décisions deviennent l’écho d’une identité qui se cherche et d’un destin qui s’affirme.

Eine Liebe, geboren aus Zucker, Honig und Mandeln Der Duft von Mandeln und geschmolzenem Zucker liegt über Alicante, warm und betörend wie ein Versprechen. Hier begegnen sich 1930 die stolze Sagrada Blasco, Tochter eines Mazapán-Fabrikanten, und José Vidal, der Erbe der rivalisierenden...

From the porch of his home, Charles Lamosway has watched the life he might have had unfold across the river on Maine's Penobscot Reservation. He caught brief moments of his neighbor Elizabeth's life--from the day she came home from the hospital to her early twenties. But there's something deeper...

THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE RECORD-BREAKING AUTHOR OF HUNGER 'An instant cult classic. You have to read it' HARPER'S BAZAAR What is the date today? Here, time doesn't pass in days. I wouldn't be surprised if spring slid straight into summer, if I looked at a clear lake and saw an old woman in my...

À travers un parcours franco-ontarien intimiste et lucide, Robert Major interroge ce que signifie « appartenir »: entre racines et départs, mémoire et présent, langue et lieux. Dans une prose réfléchie, il tisse observations, souvenirs et réflexions pour éclairer l’expérience d’une communauté qui se réinvente. Porté par la recherche du mot juste, ce récit essayistique explore l’identité, l’héritage et les liens qui nous unissent. Un voyage intérieur et collectif qui invite l’écoute, la reconnaissance et la redécouverte du territoire des appartenances.

Entre une capitale de neige et des rivières qui charrient les saisons, une voix cherche ce qui demeure lorsque tout s’effrite: l’enfance qui s’éloigne, les lieux quittés, la langue qu’on réinvente pour survivre. Tissés de récits intimes et d’éclats réflexifs, ces fragments traversent Ottawa–Gatineau et bien au-delà, en suivant les traces de celles et ceux que le manque, le désir et la mémoire tiennent éveillés. On y croise des cuisines où la nuit s’attarde, des autobus qui font le tour des regrets, des lettres jamais envoyées.

Lena thought she had survived the worst of the war. But her heart and courage are about to be tested again. 1946, Cyprus. After surviving the devastation of war, all Lena Weiss wants is to leave Europe and start over. Yet her dream of a new life is soon shattered, as the ship that would bring her to safety in Israel is shipwrecked off the coast of Cyprus. Taken with the other Jewish refugees by the British Army to a temporary internment camp, Lena fears she has escaped one prison only to enter another.

The ending is never the end. Autumn sweeps into Merivelle, carrying both celebration and change. Bear Bailey is in his final season, with Mary lovingly by his side—determined to keep life steady for the wonderful dog who’s given her so much. When the Posadas return home after a long absence, unexpected trouble from their past soon follows. Ever watchful, Bear is determined that his remaining task is to help Mary’s first friends in Merivelle finally find peace as a family.

A heartfelt contemporary romance, for fans of the Netflix hit show Nobody Wants This and Hannah Bonam-Young, in which a struggling chef, after receiving an unexpected diagnosis, finds solace in the most unlikely of sources—her childhood nemesis. All Julieta Galindo wants is to take her place...

During World War II, a Jewish mother and her two daughters flee from Nazi-occupied Poland to Uzbekistan, in this sweeping tale of resilience and connection despite impossible odds from the acclaimed author of The View from Stalin’s Head and Hotel Cuba. At the dawn of World War II, Devora...

William Blake’s poetry anthology ‘Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience’ was first published together in 1794. In 2012, at Event City, Trafford Centre, Manchester, contemporary Renaissance Man and surrealist artist Mark Sheeky painted a new series of watercolour illustrations for these famous words. This audiobook edition includes all of Blake’s classic poems from those volumes, read by 21st century surrealist artist Mark Sheeky.

Up-and-coming young artist Jefferson Fontenot has everything going for him: The hot New Orleans art scene has noticed him, and he's finally found his true love, Nevaeh Parker. But Fontenot's bright future hides a darkness known as Gemma Landry—the artist's lover and art scene influencer. Gemma believes Jefferson's talent holds the key to her seizing control of the popular Carondelet Street Gallery. But when Gemma discovers Jefferson's infidelity, she enslaves the artist with a poison she acquired from swamp-dwelling witch Mirlande St. Pierre.

The Norwegian writer, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952), is often remembered for his contribution to the renewal of the novel, and his modern view of the mind. However, in Norway it his common touch, and his vivid and humorous descriptions local culture that has endeared him to the public. Michael...

This edition includes both poems and letters, as well as the only contemporary description of Emily Dickinson, and is designed for readers who want the best poems and most interesting letters in convenient form. An excellent introduction to the work of a poet whose originality of thought remains...

Havana, 1958. The daughter of a sugar baron, 19-year-old Elisa Perez is part of Cuba's high society, where she is largely sheltered from the country's growing political unrest - until she embarks on a clandestine affair with a passionate revolutionary...Miami, 2017. Freelance writer Marisol Ferrera grew up hearing romantic stories of Cuba from her late grandmother Elisa, who was forced to flee during the revolution. Arriving in Havana, Marisol comes face-to-face with the contrast of Cuba's tropical, timeless beauty and its perilous political climate.

幻想的な怪奇物語として、日本の文学史上に燦然と輝く作品です。美しく妖しい女が満開の桜の花びらの中に掻き消えていくシーンは、男の孤独を怖いほどに描き出しています。安吾自身によるとこの作品の原

「太宰治」という名前で発表された初めての作品です。注目したいのは冒頭と最後です。冒頭で十字架上のイエスを暗示する列車番号。最後には行先表示板の『鐵札』。特に『鐵札』は単なる行先表示板ではなく、ここから「太宰治」が誕生した象徴でもあります。ある意味、太宰治の原点が凝縮された作品でもあります。

数々のメディア化された赤ひげ先生。

早逝した短編の名手、山川方夫の作品を厳選しました。「予感」「夏の葬列」「愛の終り」「朝のヨット」「ロンリー・マン」「トンボの死」「箱の中のあなた」「十三年」「待っている女」「昼の花火」

昭和初期に活躍したが惜しくも早世した小説家、中島敦の短編小説。1943（昭和18）年の「中央公論」に発表された。儒教の開祖・孔子と、その弟子となった直情径行の青年・子路の関係を綴った物語。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】 「画師」である私は、好奇心から友人の医学士高峰が行なう貴船伯爵夫人の手術を見学することになる。ところが伯爵夫人が麻酔剤を拒んだため手術ができない。夫人には心に秘密