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自分は素直ではないな、素直になりたいな、という大人にぜひ聴いていただきたい作品です。

子供向けの童話、とされていますが、今一度ぜひ大人に聴いてもらいたい作品です。働き盛りの大人ではなくて、社会の荒波を乗り越え、いろいろなものを守るために戦ってきた大人に、ぜひ贈りたい作品です。

Selected Short Stories is a collection of some of F. Scott Fitzgerald's most memorable and thought-provoking works. Published in 1931, the collection includes several of his best-known stories, such as "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," "Bernice Bobs Her Hair," and "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button." These stories explore themes of social class, love, loss, and the search for meaning in a rapidly changing world. Fitzgerald's writing style is characterized by its elegance, wit, and poetic language, making his stories both engaging and thought-provoking.

A new collection of stories from the cult author of Terminal Boredom: A philandering husband receives a bestial punishment from a wife with her own secrets to keep; a music lover finds herself in a timeline both familiar and as wrong as can be; idle high school students find adventure in another dimension but aren't all that impressed; a misfit band of space pirates discover a mysterious baby among the stars; Emma, the Bovary-like character from one of Suzuki's stories in Terminal Boredom, lands herself in a bizarre romantic pickle.

Diane Williams, "godmother of flash fiction" (The Paris Review), returns with thirty-three brilliant short stories. In Williams's stories, life is newly alive and dangerous; whether she is writing about an affair, a request for money, an afternoon in a garden, or the simple act of carrying a cake from one room to the next, she offers us beautiful and unsettling new ways of seeing everyday life.

The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai. Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction. A bestseller in China, his novel The Three-Body Problem was the first translated work of SF ever to win the Hugo Award. Here is the first collection of his short fiction: ten stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners.

Jorge Luis Borges has been called the greatest Spanish-language writer of the twentieth century. Now Borges's remarkable last major story collection, The Book of Sand, is paired with a handful of writings from the very end of his life. Brilliantly translated, these stories combine a direct and at times almost colloquial style coupled with Borges's signature fantastic inventiveness. Containing such marvelous tales as "The Congress," "Undr," "The Mirror and the Mask," and "The Rose of Paracelsus," this edition showcases Borges's depth of vision and superb image-conjuring power.

One of Canada’s most acclaimed horror writers, Gemma Files presents a mosaic of interconnected stories about interconnected families. After fleeing Scotland, five clans settled in the fictional town of Dourvale in northern Ontario. Known as the Five-Family Coven, they are the descendants of witches and witch-children, none of whom were spared persecution in their native country. Now shamans, spellcasters, singers, and thieves, the members of the Devize, Druir, Glouwer, Roke, and Rusk families survive by trading their occult powers and talents.

When Hirase, a young woman from Tokyo, arranges an appointment with the Go-Between, she doesn't expect a teenager to show up. Dressed preppy-style in a duffel coat and carrying a notebook, he invites the dead back into the real world - at least, this is what Hirase has pieced together from his website page. Ushered into a luxury hotel to await her meeting, the Go-Between lays down the ground-rules: the reunion lasts one evening under a full moon; the dead person cannot be called back by anyone else, and may refuse to meet.

Yuri’s time at the CIA safehouse is going well. He’s pacified his handlers, going so far as to call one of them a friend. But even as he settles, Yuri struggles with why he came to America in the first place. He traces his present situation back to the mission for Russia that made his name—and that may have condemned his soul.

Escape on a journey from the ordinary to the extraordinary with award-winning fantasy editor Paula Guran. This superbly curated collection explores myth and fable, dark and light—a heroic creature facing a dangerous demon; an earthly love facing the mossy decay of death. With tales of living ball gowns and timid monsters, of modern witches and multidimensional magic, these twenty-four stories will transport you from fantastical realms that push the limits of imagination to alternative realities mirroring much of our own.

A short comedic fantasy story that presents a philosophical idea.

James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth. Joyce's aim was to tell the truth — to create a work of art that would reflect life in Ireland at the turn of the last century.

Una maravillosa muestra del talento narrativo de Murakami que nos abre las puertas a otras realidades y nos lleva de la mano a mundos fantásticos. Un hombre que se obsesiona con la insólita y misteriosa desaparición del elefante de un zoo, un abogado en paro que recibe el encargo de su mujer de encontrar a su gato, una pareja de recién casados que deciden atracar un MacDonald's en plena noche, una curiosa digresión sobre los canguros, un enano diabólico que baila, un joven empeñado en burlarse de su futuro cuñado, un pirómano confeso.

Nur wenige seiner Werke hielt Franz Kafka für so gelungen, dass sie der Nachwelt erhalten bleiben sollten. Der Landarzt gehört dazu. Der Arzt wird nachts zu einem Schwerkranken gerufen - so beginnt eine typisch kafkaeske Erzählung voller rätselhafter Ereignisse und Aussagen. So etwas konnte wirklich nur einer schreiben: Franz Kafka.

Full of glimpses into gleaming worlds and fairy tales with teeth, Seasons of Glass and Iron: Stories is a collection of acclaimed and awarded work from Amal El-Mohtar. With confidence and style, El-Mohtar guides us through exquisitely told and sharply observed tales about life as it is, was, and could be. Like miscellany from other worlds, these stories are told in letters, diary entries, reference materials, folktales, and lyrical prose.

בידיכם הסיפור המכונן והחשוב בתולדות הספרות הסינית המודרנית. די בשעה אחת לקרוא אותו במלואו. איך ייתכן שיצירה קצרה כל כך הפכה לנכס הספרותי היקר ביותר במדינה רחבת ידיים כסין, מולדתה של אחת ממסורות הכתיבה הארוכות והעשירות בעולם? על אף עמודיו הספורים (ואולי דווקא בשל כך), ״יומנו של משוגע״ הוא קרקע פורייה לפרשנויות: יצירה ריאליסטית, בדיה מוחלטת, או יצירה אלגורית ואף אמנותית גרידא.

സമകാലിക സാമൂഹ്യ യാഥാർത്ഥ്യങ്ങളുടെ നേർസാക്ഷ്യങ്ങളായ രചനകൾ. പുതുനിര കഥാകൃത്തുക്കളിൽ ശ്രദ്ധേയനായ എഴുത്തു കാരന്റെ 5 നോവെല്ലകൾ. ഒരാൾക്ക് എത്ര മണ്ണ് വേണം, അതിജീവനം, മഞ്ഞമുഖം, പ്രകാശദൂരങ്ങൾ, ആദിമൂലം.

Helm is a ferocious, mischievous wind - a subject of folklore and awe, who has blasted the sublime landscape of the Eden Valley since the very dawn of time. Through the stories of those who've obsessed over this phenomenon, Helm's extraordinary history is formed: the Neolithic tribe who tried to placate Helm, the Dark Age wizard priest who wanted to banish Helm, the Victorian steam engineer who attempted to capture Helm - and the farmer's daughter who loved Helm.

"ಕನ್ನಡದ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಕಥೆಗಾರ್ತಿ ವೈದೇಹಿ ಅವರ ಹೊಸ ಹುಡುಕಾಟಗಳನ್ನು ದಾಖಲಿಸುವ ಸಂಕಲನ ಇದು. ಈ ಎಲ್ಲ ಕಥೆಗಳ ಹಿಂದೆ 'ಗಂಡು' 'ಹೆಣ್ಣು'ಗಳು ಕೂಡಿರುವ ಒಂದು ಲೋಕವಿದೆ; ಆ ಲೋಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಿಥುನವಿರುವಂತೆಯೇ ವಿಚ್ಛೇದವೂ ಇದೆ; ಸ್ವಾರಸ್ಯದ ಮಾತುಗಾರಿಕೆಯಿರುವಷ್ಟೇ ಗಾಢವಾದ ವಿಷಾದದ ಮಂದ್ರಸ್ಥಾಯಿಯೂ ಇದೆ. ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಉಲ್ಲಾಸದ ಉಬ್ಬರ ಕೆಲವೊಮ್ಮೆ ಮೊರೆದು ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಂಡರೆ ಕೆಲವೊಮ್ಮೆ ಹಿಂಸೆಯ ನೆರಳು ಚಾಚಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತದೆ. ಪಾತ್ರಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಸನ್ನಿವೇಶಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮತ್ತು ಇಡಿಯ ಕಥನ ಕ್ರಮದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೀಗೆ, ವಿರುದ್ಧಭಾವಗಳನ್ನು ಮಿಥುನಗೊಳಿಸಿ ಕಾಣಿಸುವ ಒಂದು ವಿಶಿಷ್ಟ ಕಲೆಗಾರಿಕೆ ಪ್ರಾಯಶಃ ವೈದೇಹಿಯವರ ಈ ಕಥೆಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರಮುಖವಾದದ್ದು. ಆದ್ದರಿಂದಲೇ, 'ಕ್ರೌಂಚ ಪಕ್ಷಿಗಳು' ಎಂಬುದು ಈ ಸಂಕಲನದ ಒಂದು ಕಥೆಯ ತಲೆಬರಹ ಮಾತ್ರವಲ್ಲ ಅದು ಈ ಕಥನಕ್ರಮದ ಒಂದು ಆದಿಪ್ರತಿಮ."