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【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

『貧しき人々の群』『道標』などの代表作で知られ、大正・昭和期に活動した作家の随筆。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

1931年に発表された短編小説。ソヴィエト・ロシアに住む6歳の男の子ミーチャを中心に、1930年代初頭の社会状況、特に労働者家庭の日常生活と子育て環境が描写される。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

災いをもたらすイノシシに困った王様は、退治した者に一人娘を妻にやるとお触れを出す。二人の兄弟が名乗り出て、兄は西から、弟は東から森の中に入ることに。弟は小人からもらった黒い槍で怪物を退治する。妬んだ兄は、王様のところへ持って行く途中で弟を殴り殺し、橋の下に埋める。数年後、ヒツジ飼いが橋の下で白い骨を一つ見つけると、削って笛にする。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

寒い夜、太郎は車の音を聞き、恐ろしいものを想像する。一方、田舎から来た16、17歳の女中おさよも車の音を聞く。おさよは故郷を思い出す。祖父が車を引いて市場へ行く様子や、家族の思い出が蘇る。次の晩、おさよは再び車の音を聞き、祖父の車の音に似ていると感じる。彼女は外に出て、車を引く人を見る。しかし、それは見知らぬ男性だった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

玄翁和尚という高徳の僧侶が、奥州から都へ帰る途中、人間の背丈ほどある大きな石の側で野宿をすることになった。夜中、石の精が現れ、自らの正体について語り始める。石の精はかつて玉藻前という名で知られた九尾の狐だった。天竺で千年の修行を積み、人間の姿になったあと、様々な国で悪事を働いたと言う。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

相対性理論・量子論の研究で知られ、大正・昭和期に活動した理論物理学者が綴る、フランスの化学者、微生物学者の伝記。パストゥールのおかげで微生物学は大いに進歩し、伝染病がそれほど恐ろしいものではなくなった。微生物によって起こされる病気からの免疫の方法も解明した。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

身寄りのない少年は、病気で働けず、死ぬことさえ考えていた。ある日、おばあさんから西の山奥にある温泉の話を聞き、そこへ行くことを決意する。少年は旅費を稼ぐため、四つ街道で道案内をしてお金を集めはじめる。木賃宿で他の乞食たちと出会うが、彼らの脅しにあい、宿を追い出されてしまう。途中、石を積んだ車を押す男に出会う。

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.

The Russian Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 12 classic novels and short stories by Russian authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Tolstoy; Dostoyevsky; Chekhov; Gogol; Turgenev; and more.

The Ultimate Modern Classics Collection: Volume One is the first instalment in our classics collection focusing on the most important and iconic novels, stories, and poems of the 20th century. Featuring 18 essential modern classics from Orwell, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Woolf, and many more, and read by a cast of incredible narrators including Iwan Rheon, Ben Allen, Karen Cass, Nathan Osgood, amongst others, this is an essential addition to your library.

You can’t have a good tale of monster hunting without monsters. And sometimes the monsters don’t need to be hunted. Sometimes it’s fun sitting back at minimum safe distance and watching the mayhem.

How well do you know people? How well do they know you? Six award-winning, bestselling authors of suspense explore the lingering threat of secrets and the inescapable fear that they can’t stay buried forever. No matter how dark the hiding place, the consequences of revealing the truth can bring out the worst in lovers, friends, family, and strangers.

Winning stories from The Bazaar of Bad Dreams Hodder- Guardian competition. The number one best-selling writer Stephen King presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology: 'Wild Swimming' by Elodie Harper. 'Eau-de-Eric' by Manuela Saragosa. 'The Spots' by Paul Bassett Davies. 'The Unpicking' by Michael Button. 'La Mort de L'amant' by Stuart Johnstone. 'The Bear Trap' by Neil Hudson.

Lust. Revenge. Greed. Hunger. Desire doesn’t care if you’re at the bottom of the ladder or the top of your game. Six masters of psychological suspense craft tales about people crossing moral lines in pursuit of their deepest desires. In these short stories, even the most mild-mannered characters can spin out of control when passion is at play. Hold on tight—there’s no turning back.

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the chilling reality of injustice that haunts our nation. Featuring an introduction by Peele and an all-star roster of beloved writers and new voices, Out There Screaming is a master class in horror, and—like his spine-chilling films—its stories prey on everything we think we know about our world . . . and redefine what it means to be afraid.

From the mind of Edward Lee comes a brand new neighborhood anthology. Horror for Housewives is a cul-de-sac of some of the best female horror writers within the sadistic suburbs.

The Seed of McCoy written by Jack London: The Pyrenees, her iron sides pressed low in the water by her cargo of wheat, rolled sluggishly, and made it easy for the man who was climbing aboard from out a tiny outrigger canoe. As his eyes came level with the rail, so that he could see inboard, it seemed to him that he saw a dim, almost indiscernible haze. It was more like an illusion, like a blurring film that had spread abruptly over his eyes.

In "Cahoots," a backroom poker game turns deadly when a cheater is exposed. In "Mulholland Dive," a man who deciphers the hidden codes of accident scenes investigates a fatality off L.A.'s most fabled roadway. In "Two-Bagger," an obsessed cop tails an ex-con he believes is about to carry out a contract killing.

Now in audio for the first time, Without Feathers is narrated by Woody Allen himself. Here they are: 16 of the funniest tales and ruminations ever recorded, by one of the great comic minds of our time. From "The Whore of Mensa", to "Fabulous Tales & Mythical Beasts", to "No Kaddish for Weinstein", old and new Allen fans will laugh themselves silly over these sparkling gems.

A thoroughly engaging collection of classic short stories from some of the greatest writers who lived.

A terrifying collection of classic Victorian short stories about ghosts, werewolves and vampires. The Wolf Book by Henry Chapman Mercer. Number Ninety by B. M. Croker. Ken's Mystery by Julian Hawthorne. The Piano Next Door by Elia W. Peattie. The White Wolf of the Hartz Mountains by Frederick Marryat. The Horla by Guy de Maupassant. Absolute Evil by Julian Hawthorne. Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson.

Recently rediscovered in the archives of the New York Public Library, these short stories provide an unparalleled look at Truman Capote writing in his teens and early twenties, before he penned such classics as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and In Cold Blood. This collection of more than a dozen pieces showcases the young Capote developing the unique voice and sensibility that would make him one of the twentieth century’s most original writers.

It had been a typical New Year's Eve party. But as midnight approaches, Mr. Satterthwaite - a keen observer of human nature - senses that the real drama of the evening is yet to unfold. And so it proves when a mysterious stranger knocks on the door. Who is this Mr. Quin? Mr. Satterthwaite's new friend is an enigma. He seems to appear and disappear almost like a trick of the light. In fact, the only consistent thing about him is that his presence is always an omen - sometimes good, but sometimes deadly....

This is a selection of stories by author, Mario V. Farina, delving into several different aspects of human relationships. Each story presents an issue and a resolution that invites the reader to consider whether another would have been more appropriate. The stories are intended for listeners ages 13 and above.

Ein Betrunkener wird vom Nebel verschluckt. Ein Jüngling, der den Ansprüchen des Vaters nicht genügt, sucht umsonst Trost auf einer wilden Party. Ein 50-Jähriger wird durch den Tod seines ehemaligen Lehrers aus der Bahn geworfen. Ein gelangweilter Sohn aus reichem Hause meldet sich zum Kriegsdienst. Zwei Brüder haben nur noch sich und ihre Fracks, in denen sie von einer Feier zur nächsten geraten. Und ein Künstler muss in seinem Atelier erst intensiv gesucht und dann samt seiner absonderlichen Theorien ertragen werden.

Beast Hunt invites you to step into the claws, wings, and scales of the creatures humanity has feared for centuries. From mighty dragons to forgotten forest spirits, from mechanical monstrosities to cursed beings of the deep—these are the stories of the unseen, the unheard, and the misunderstood.

Eggplant Canyon... Where 3 is never a crowd! All 6 stories from the Eggplant Canyon series are available in this bundle.

Here is one of Oscar Wilde's wonderful fairy tales, about a giant, the children he meets, and the Christ Child. A moving story, good to hear all year 'round - but especially in the Christmas season.

Winesburg, Ohio is a little-known masterpiece that forever changed the course of American storytelling. At the center of this collection of stories stands George Willard, an earnest young reporter for the Winesburg Eagle who sets out to gather the town’s daily news. He ends up discovering the town’s deepest secrets as one by one, the townsfolk confide their hopes, dreams, and fears to the reporter. In their recollections of first loves and last rites, of sprawling farms and winding country roads, the town rises vividly - and poignantly - to life.

With the coruscating gaze that informed The Sympathizer, in The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen gives voice to lives led between two worlds, the adopted homeland and the country of birth. From a young Vietnamese refugee who suffers profound culture shock when he comes to live with two gay men in San Francisco, to a woman whose husband is suffering from dementia and starts to confuse her for a former lover, to a girl living in Ho Chi Minh City whose older half sister comes back from America having seemingly accomplished everything she never will.