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Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him. Falsely accused of a political crime, Dantès is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If prison. But it is there that Dantès learns of a vast hidden treasure.

This is a story from the More Classic American Short Stories collection.

In this collection of classic ghost stories from Japan, beautiful princesses turn out to be frogs, paintings come alive, deadly spectral brides haunt the living and a samurai delivers the baby of a Shinto goddess with mystical help. Here are all the phantoms and ghouls of Japanese folklore: 'rokuro-kubi', whose heads separate from their bodies at night; 'jikininki', or flesh-eating goblins; and terrifying faceless 'mujina' who haunt lonely neighbourhoods.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ある若い婦人が外科手術を極度に恐れ、健康を取り戻せる機会があっても手術を受けることを拒んでいた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ものぐさじいさんは若い時から、じっとしているのが好きだった。年をとってますますものぐさになるが、みんなから愛され、終日、ひなたぼっこをする。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】かね子は生まれた時から目がよく見えない。毎日、遊びに来る次郎が、浦島太郎の絵本を読んで聞かせていると、龍宮の絵がわからないかね子は、涙ぐんでしまう。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

自身の文学的成長と経験を綴った自伝的エッセイ。売れなかった時代や、文学の道へ進む転機となった徳田秋声との出会い、欧州旅行で日本語の美しさと詩の重要性を再認識した経験など。林が文学にかける思いと、当時の日本文壇の様子が描かれる。多くの文学者や出版社の名前が登場し、昭和初期の文学界の雰囲気を感じ取ることができる。

Available to listeners for the first time, Sucker’s Portfolio showcases a collection of seven never-before-published works from Kurt Vonnegut, one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Short, sardonic, and dark, these six brief fiction stories and one non-fiction piece are consummate Vonnegut with piercing satire and an eye for life’s obscene inanity. Also available for the first time is an unfinished science-fiction short story, included in the appendix.

Before he gained wide fame as a novelist, Ernest Hemingway established his literary reputation with his short stories. Set in the varied landscapes of Spain, Africa, and the Americam Midwest, this definitive audio collection traces the development and maturation of Hemingway's distinct and revolutionary storytelling style: from the plain bald language of the first story to his mastery of seamless prose that contained a spare, eloquent pathos, as well as a sense of expansive solitude.

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits - an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies - who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, “that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.”

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】秩父地方の豊かな自然が織りなす美しさを描いた随筆。秩父の山々は威圧的ではなく人を優しく包み込む性質を持つ。小暮は、それは情緒的であり女性的であると述べる。

El irlandes Bram Stoker, que supo sobreponerse a la invalidez que lo aquejo en la infancia para convertirse en notable atleta, recogio esos temores al crear el personaje del Conde Dracula, un vampiro que tiene que alimentarse de sangre humana para sobrevivir.

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ある家に大事にしまってあった不思議な青いランプには、火を点けると変わったことが起きるという言い伝えがあった。しかし、文明の世に化け物や悪魔がいるはずもないと、村人達は一笑に付す。それが迷信であることを確かめるため、青いランプを点けてみることになる。その夜、皆が集まり、ランプが青い光を放つと、その家のおばあさんが昔話を語り出す。

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

Though The Arabian Nights are generally known as stories for children, they were originally tales for adults full of adventure, sexuality, violence, and the supernatural. They certainly inspired the imagination of Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century explorer, linguist, and erotologist who brought all his worldly experience and superbly expressive prose style to bear on the tales of Sindbad the Seaman and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

Capote's previously lost and unpublished tale "Yachts and Things" was recently discovered by Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kasher in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library. Written at the height of his career and socialite life, this short, thinly-veiled work of fiction tells the story of two friends about to take an "idyllic three-week cruise in the Mediterranean aboard a friend's chartered yacht".

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

主人公の辰一は、染め物屋の徳蔵の自転車を愛用していた。徳蔵は辰一を弟のように可愛がり、自転車に乗せて遊んでくれた仲だった。しかし徳蔵に召集令が下り、戦地で戦死する。辰一は徳蔵の形見として自転車屋に並ぶ徳蔵の古い自転車を購入しようと貯金するが、他の客に売られてしまう。

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二月二十八日、生暖かい風が吹き、地面は濡れていた。歩くと足下から病人の呼息のような蒸気が立ち上り、人々の眼鼻口を悩ませる。帰宅すると肩当と羽織だけが不思議と汗で濡れていたが、綿入れなどの下着は湿っておらず、妙な感覚を抱いた。友人の池辺君の容体が突然変ったのは、その日の十時半頃からであった──。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】日本アルプスについて、その名称の由来、地形的・地質的特性、気候の違い、生態系などをまとめた記録。

Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist, two ranch hands, come together when they're working as sheepherder and camp tender one summer on a range above the tree line. At first, sharing an isolated tent, the attraction is casual, inevitable, but something deeper catches them that summer.