検索キーワード： 選集

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】織田作之助の随筆。秋という季節が持つ独特の感受性や、そこに絡む孤独、そして自然の美しさを語っている。

In this chilling collection, five acclaimed authors invite you into a world where the supernatural hides in plain sight. Look closely, and you’ll find it: lurking within an ancient tree, stalking an idyllic beach, and whispering through a friend’s letter. Your curiosity is exactly what it’s been waiting for.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】近江国の余呉湖の漁師、伊香刀美はある春の日、湖で白い鳥が現れるのを目撃する。鳥を追いかけた彼は湖で泳ぐ八人の少女たちを見つけた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】秘密警備隊員の笹枝弦吾（コードネーム：QX30）は、同僚帆立介次と共に、敵スパイの副司令が潜む「間諜座」という劇場に潜入する任務を受ける。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】坂口は戦争を洪水と同様、制御が困難な「怪物」と例え、それに対処するには「逃げるか服従するしかない」と主張する。

【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。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】伊代は九太から40円の手切れ金を受け取り、貯金をする。二人は3年間連れ添った夫婦であったが、九太が故楽長の未亡人まさ子と関係を持ったことで別れることとなった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】夫をシベリアで亡くした未亡人が、息子の行雄と古くからの使用人・作衛と暮らしていた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】人々の精神生活における虚無感を描いた物語。私は浅間山麓の草津旧街道にある寂れた茶店に立ち寄る。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

大倉燁子の探偵小説。女流探偵桜井洋子は、富豪有松武雄から至急の依頼を受け沼津へ向かう。列車内で不審な会話を耳にし、二人の男が途中下車するのを目撃する。沼津到着後、有松邸に着くと、養女の美和子が父の死を告げる。有松は書斎で心臓を短刀で刺され、死亡していた。美和子は父の遺体を発見し、刺さっていた短刀を抜いたと語るが……。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

『日本文学の写実精神』などの著書があり、昭和期に活動した国文学者・随筆家の旅行記。久しぶりに京都の秋を観ようと東京駅を発つ。中京にある古風で小さな宿は、馴染みの客ばかりで、ふりの客は稀だという。折からの時雨に、中庭にある松の緑が土蔵の白壁を背景に美しい色を見せている。京都駅に着いた時にはもう降り始めていた雨は本降りになった。

O. Henry was the pen name of William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), an American writer of outstanding short stories known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings. In this story two old friends had promised to meet up exactly 20 years to the day since their last meeting in New York. One of the friends has travelled a thousand miles to be there...and is now waiting for his childhood companion. Will he turn up?

In this short tale for fans of Cinderella and Bridgerton, Pearl’s ball gown may carry the whiff of mothballs, but her dance card for the duke’s ball is full…until she loses a shoe. In her enthusiasm, Pearl’s foot slides out of her too-big damask slipper in the middle of a dance and gets kicked around the ballroom to the amusement of the sophisticated guests. What is a spirited but clumsy heroine to do? Can her composure and good humor save her social dignity?

The Ultimate Horror Collection is a fully-indexed collection of over 60 classic horror stories, read by four Audie-winning narrators. Included here are stories by H.P. Lovecraft; Edgar Allan Poe; M.R. James; Oscar Wilde; Joseph Le Fanu; Bram Stoker; Mary Shelley; Robert Louis Stevenson; and Henry James.

A spirit who appears in a law firm reliving the exact moment she lost her chance at love, a man haunted by the trees cut down to build his house, nefarious specters that snatch anyone who steps into the shadows in which they live, and parakeets that serve as mouthpieces for the dead - these are just a few of the characters Kevin Brockmeier presents in this extraordinary compendium of spectral emanations and their wildly various purposes in (after) life.

A young dog becomes tired of being underfed and abused. Scared of her owner’s threat to kill her, she runs away. The owner of a dog sanctuary rescues her from dogcatchers.

Daisy Miller is one of Henry James' shorter and earlier novels. It was written in 1878. It portrays the confused courtship of a headstrong American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers who is much more sophisticated. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switzerland and Italy.

Has anyone ever told you that baseball is more than a game, that it's really a metaphor for life? Have you ever wondered what they meant? This story imagines the answer. A single mother moves to Kansas City with her young daughter and notices that everyone she meets - her new colleagues, neighbors, even the mailman - can't stop talking about baseball. "It's more than just a game," they tell the mother. "It's so much more. What you need is to come to a game and experience it."

This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds listeners of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets. Among the 42 selections in this audiobook are such classics as "A Bear Hunt", "A Rose for Emily", "Two Soldiers", and "The Brooch".

Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers, a storyteller celebrated for her emotional acuity, her formal inventiveness, and her ability to capture the mind in overdrive. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" ( Salon.com ) and "one of the quiet giants... of American fiction" ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ). This volume contains all her stories to date, from the acclaimed "Break It Down" (1986) to the 2007 National Book Award nominee "Varieties of Disturbance".