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【小学館の名作文芸朗読】九月に突然末妹・杉枝の結婚が決まった。相手は上海の銀行勤務の安並という男で、本来は長女の登美子に持ち込まれた話であったが、登美子は見合いに乗り気ではなく断ったのだ。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】食べ物の記憶を通して戦前の東京の風景や社会変化を描くエッセイ。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】遊んでばかりの男がいた。兄妹が何度注意しても聞かず、酒場や劇場で日々を過ごしていた。ある夜、男は酔った帰り道で銀の杖を持つ老人と出会う。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ロシアの作家イワン・ツルゲーネフの人生と作品について書かれた評論。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】「りこうもののエルゼ」という娘がいた。両親はそろそろエルゼを嫁に出そうと考えていると、遠くのほうかたハンスという男が訪ねてきて「ほんとうにりこうなら」結婚をすると言う。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】広島の原子爆弾で壊滅的な被害を受けた過去を持つ「彼」は、喪失感と孤独の中で日々を過ごしていた。

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寺田寅彦の随筆。古代北欧の英雄譚と日常のピアノ練習を組み合わせた構成になっている。春の寒い時期、床に臥せっていた寺田は、Heimskringlaという書物を手に取った。それはスノルレ・スツール・ラソンが12世紀末に記録したスカンジナヴィアの古い物語である。また、隣室では長女がメンデルスゾーンの「春の歌」のピアノ練習をしていた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】作家としての姿勢や創作に対する考え方を論じたエッセイ。作家にとって創作が本業ではなく、日々の生活態度を定めることこそが本業であり、創作はその副業だと述べる。

The story tells the tale of an introverted academic who happens upon a strange whistle while exploring a cemetery on the East Anglian coast. When blown, the whistle unleashes a supernatural force that terrorises its discoverer. Montague Rhodes James was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.

Colin Dexter’s Chief Inspector Morse - the cranky, heavy-drinking, and exasperatingly brilliant sleuth of the Thames Valley Police - has become one of the most beloved detectives in fiction. Now, with this collection of 11 short stories, we can savor choice examples of his dry wit, devious cunning, and psychological insight at its best. Colin Dexter tantalizes us with six Inspector Morse adventures, ranging from bite-size morsels of intrigue to longer stories for listeners to sink their teeth into.

French literature may be said to begin with the ninth century "Song of Roland," and it has since then churned out masterpiece after masterpiece in every century right up to the present. Beginning with Balzac and Dumas in the early part of the nineteenth century and proceeding to Sartre and Camus at the midpoint of the twentieth, the stories in this collection showcase the talents of some of the greatest French masters of the short story.

The tale of a man who unwittingly angers a sorcerer, who is assumed by some Monty scholars to be based on the self-styled 'Great Beast,' occultist Aleister Crowley. Montague Rhodes James was a noted British mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918) and of Eton College (1918–1936). He is best remembered for his ghost stories which are widely regarded as among the finest in English literature.

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江戸時代に活躍した測量家・伊能忠敬の生涯と偉業について書かれた伝記文学。伊能が延享二年、上総国山武郡小関村で生まれてから、地図作成に至るまでの人生。地図作成における苦労や努力、使用した測量技術や道具、全国を巡る大規模な測量プロジェクトの詳細について述べられる。

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与謝野晶子が、「貞操」という概念を理性と感情の両方から再考したエッセイ。従来、女性の貞操は社会的な慣習や感情に基づいて扱われてきたが、彼女はその合理的根拠を問う。貞操の起源を探ると、元始的人間には貞操観念はなく、一夫多妻・一婦多夫が一般的であった。

First published nearly a quarter-century ago and one of the very few short-story collections to win the PEN/Faulkner Award, this is American fiction at its most vital - each narrative a masterpiece of sustained power and seemingly effortless literary grace.

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

The French Classics Collection brings together 18 of the greatest works of fiction ever written in French - here collected into one audiobook and all translated into English. Featuring grand epics of love, loss, and survival, as in Les Miserables, to tales of adventure in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth, and romances such as Madame Bovary, alongside many more grand stories from 17th, 18th, and 19th century France, this collection will whisk you away into other worlds with some of the greatest characters in literature within some of the greatest novels ever written.

Eight deliciously talented mystery authors have lent their skills of crafting murder and suspense to this collection of gripping short stories. Each of these eight provocative tales is designed to entertain and mystify—and maybe even chill you to your core. Get lost in the wild imaginations of such New York Times bestselling writers as Andrew Child, Heather Graham, Reed Farrel Coleman, and John Gilstrap, plus authors Rick Bleiweiss, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Amanda Flower, and Don Bruns.

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, was an Irish writer known also by the Japanese name Koizumi Yakumo. His book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, comprises two parts, the first being the "Kwaidan Proper" and the second, "Insect-Studies", which consists of an essay each on ants, butterflies and mosquitos. According to the author, most of the folk tales and ghost stories in the first part were translated from old Japanese texts. The themes encompass resurrection, sacrifice, magic, and the realm of dreams.

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山岳地方の春の訪れと自然の変化を観察したエッセイ。三月でも山には雪が残り、消えるのは五月中旬頃という季節のずれに着目する。冷たい空気が北へ流れ、地中の熱と日光が働き出すと、短期間で春から夏へと変わる。