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こうるさいおやぢが目にみえるようである。 小煩い名を成した食通のセンセイが、眉間にシワをよせ、足を組み、指をたて て振り回しながら講釈を垂れている。 真剣に。 心の底から真剣に、横丁のおばさんにむかって。 横丁のおばさんにむかって、料理人たちに語りかけるときとおなじくらい心の 底から真剣に。 だしの素つかっているワタクシにそんなこと言われてもな。 苦笑いである。 でも、今晩は、ちょっとだしの素の説明書読んでから出汁を取ろうかな・・

Culture and Anarchy is a series of periodical essays by Matthew Arnold, first published in Cornhill Magazine 1867-68 and collected as a book in 1869. Arnold's famous piece of writing on culture established his High Victorian cultural agenda which remained dominant in debate from the 1860s until the 1950s. According to his view advanced in the book, ‘Culture [...] is a study of perfection’.

So long as we are alive, so long as we feel, so long as we love, everything in us is an energy we can use. He is born into a world of poverty, ignorance and injustice, but Azaro awakens with a smile on his face. Despite belonging to a spirit world made of enchantment, where there is no suffering, Azaro chooses to stay in the land of the Living: to feel it, endure it, know it and love it. This is his story.

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。」

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。

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.

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.

À la fin de la guerre fédérale des États-Unis, les fanatiques artilleurs du Gun-Club (Club-Canon) de Baltimore sont bien désœuvrés. Un beau jour, le président, Impey Barbicane, leur fait une proposition qui, le premier moment de stupeur passé, est accueillie avec un enthousiasme délirant. Il s'agit de se mettre en communication avec la Lune en lui envoyant un boulet, un énorme projectile qui serait lancé par un gigantesque canon !

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.

By any measure, Gary Snyder is one of the greatest poets in America in the last century. From his first book of poems to his latest collection of essays, his work and his example, standing between Tu Fu and Thoreau, has been influential all over the world. Riprap, his first book of poems, was published in Japan in 1959 by Origin Press, and it is the 50th anniversary of that groundbreaking book that is celebrated with this new edition.

Hindi Sahitya Ka Itihas by Acharya Ramchandra Shukla, translated by Shyam Chandra Kapoor, is a comprehensive history of Hindi literature. The audiobook covers the evolution of Hindi literature from its origins to contemporary times, exploring major literary movements, poets, and writers. Shukla’s work is a crucial resource for students, researchers, and enthusiasts of Hindi literature.

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.

The Old English epic poem Beowulf, recorded in its original Saxon dialect for the first time. Performed by Icelandic poet, playwright, professional storyteller and performer Svanur Thorkelsson, Audible’s production gives listeners the opportunity to experience how it might have felt to hear bards recite sections of the 3000-line poem from memory in Anglo Saxon dining halls. Audible’s Beowulf recaptures the heroic style and vast scale of what can be considered ‘England’s first native audiobook’.

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.

Richard Ellmann has revised and expanded his definitive work on Joyce's life to include newly discovered primary material, including details of a failed love affair, a limerick about Samuel Beckett, a dream notebook, previously unknown letters, and much more.

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.

Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together 15 stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's 40-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States. Yamamoto's themes include the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans.

Nei giorni dell’occupazione nazista una famiglia di ebrei romani in fuga trova rifugio in una canonica di campagna. Giacomo, il padre, è però costretto per lavoro a fare delle rapide sortite nella capitale, finché una sera non torna a casa. Elsa, con le due ragazze adolescenti, Milena e Dora, una volta tornata alla libertà dovrà farcela con le sue forze. Come è avvenuto l’arresto di suo marito? Chi ha parlato? Elsa non vuole che le figlie sappiano e che restino incatenate al passato e alla tragedia. Vuole che guardino avanti, al futuro.

"Teatro 2" è il secondo volume di testi scritti da Stefano Benni per registi e interpreti teatrali: dalla libera rivisitazione dell'opera collodiana in "Pinocchia", scritto per la donna burattino Angela Finocchiaro, a "Le canzoni di Amlieto", la commedia sul principe triste di shakespeariana memoria, scritta per i Broncoviz del Teatro dell'Archivolto; dal "Dottor Divago", un monologo interpretato da Ugo di Ghero, a "Il carnevale degli insetti".