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Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel", "Hansel and Gretel", and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in content and style.

This landmark collection is the definitive introduction to the Buddha's teachings - in his own words. The American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, whose voluminous translations have won widespread acclaim, here presents selected discourses of the Buddha from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of what the Buddha taught. Divided into 10 thematic chapters, In the Buddha's Words reveals the full scope of the Buddha's discourses, from family life and marriage to renunciation and the path of insight.

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. While his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.

とある理由で両腕を切断してしまう軍人の元へ慰問に訪れた芸者。「自分の両腕を切ってしまう前に一度でいい、生れて初めて、そして最後にこの手で女の人の手にさわって見たい」と言われ…。第11回直木賞受賞作品。

Prize-winning biographer William Dubin learns from lives, or thinks he does - those he writes, those he shares, the life he lives. Now in his later middle age, he seeks his own secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the obsession of love - love for a woman half is age, who has sought an understanding of her life through his books. Dubin's Lives is a rich, subtle book, as well as a moving tale of love and marriage.

Jazz band na sala da gente é a história romanceada do avô judeu de Alexandre, Eduardinho Staut, que nos anos 30 e 40, foi músico da pequena orquestra do interior de São Paulo "Pinhal Jazz", assim como dono da funerária da cidade de Pinhal. Texto de orelha de Ronaldo Cagiano: "A obra de estreia de Alexandre Staut, tem uma linearidade, tanto da temática da narrativa quanto da linguagem, essa fluente e diáfana.

Fouqués reizendes Naturkind Undine, das erst durch die Liebe zu einem Menschen eine Seele erhalten kann, wurde sofort zu einer Figur der Weltliteratur, die in zahlreichen literarischen Variationen, in Ballett und Oper, vor allem aber durch Fouqués eigene märchenhafte Erzählung nach wie vor lebendig ist.

「寛容」は、英領下にあるインド人が、自らの日本観を新たにする経緯を書く。インド独立を夢見るドミイは、日本で商い、家庭を構え、根付きながらも「笑ふ人種」の日本人を軽んじている。「不良英人」として国外退去処分になっても、さしたるショックはなかった。 しかし、日中戦争の勃発を機にドミイは、日本人がいざとなればひどく勇猛であること、自分の侮ってきた日本人の甘さが、実は日本の「寛容」であったことを知る。 表紙絵の人物はおそらくドミイなのだろう。当時イメージされた「南」の人の典型的な表象だ。ドミイは初め着物を嫌っていた。しかし「日本が恋しくて堪らな」くなった彼は、身の丈に合わない着物をまとい、日の丸を手にする。

不思議な猫に連れられてたどり着いたのは、美しい洋館〈楡屋敷〉だった。あることで声を失い、療養を兼ねて下宿生活を始めた瑛麻。一階の〈書林コマドリ〉でアルバイトをしながら、本好きの下宿仲間と二階で暮らす生活は思いもよらない出来事ばかり。

戦後80年、広島生まれ育ちの著者が、いま戦争を描く。「ぼくのおじいちゃんは戦争で兵隊になって南方に行きました。」

Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel". In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child?

Lorène et Giulia, deux amies d'enfance que tout oppose, mais que rien n'a jamais pu séparer. Tandis que Giulia doit se battre pour rester en vie, Lorène doit, quant à elle, surmonter sa peur de vivre. Mais en amitié, il n'y a jamais de petites victoires, seulement de grands combats.

ひとりは令嬢、一人は孤児として育った。戦後御殿場を舞台に始まる　双子姉妹のアンティークミステリー開幕。昭和30年。東京の養育院で暮らす16歳の小百合は呆然とした。

This collection of Buk's grimmest diaries gives an insight into the noir and brutal Los Angeles that Bukowski observed and lived so well. He was a legend in his time: a madman, a recluse, a lover...tender, vicious...never the same. These are exceptional stories that came pounding out of his violent and depraved life - horrible and holy. You cannot listen to them and come away the same again.

母親の入院を機に長野西宮高校に転入した神代江姫は戦慄した。そこは何百年に亘って怨霊が蠢く土地だったのだ。自分以外が鎮魂の神楽を舞えば演者は必ず死ぬと予言された彼女は、文化祭恒例の神楽を舞う羽目に。

This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner.

Bukowski's mad immortal origins, surfaced from the literary underground, have addicted legions of audiences who've recognized Bukowski as one of America's greatest realist writers and poets. Audible Studios narrator and OBIE winner Will Patton ( Remember the Titans, The Good Wife, Armageddon) gives a tour de force performance of Bukowski's greatest work in his prime.

In Scarborough, a low-income urban neighborhood, three kids struggle to rise above poverty, abuse, and a system that consistently fails them. The adults in their lives either rise to the occasion or fall by the wayside; together, they make up a troubled yet inspired community that refuses to be undone.

A new family moves in over the road. The new family is acting strange. This new family has some secrets. From the author of Audible's Thriller of the Year, Silent Child, comes another psychological thriller to keep you guessing until the very end. Performed by Sophie McShera, (Daisy Mason, Downton Abbey), enter the world of a family broken by lies, a woman traumatised by a dark past, and a child caught in the crossfire.