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The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

ある秋の夜、王石谷(おうせきこく)は軍※(「りっしんべん＋軍」)南田(うんなんでん)と茶を飲みながら、黄大癡(こうたいち)の「秋山図」について語り始める。元宰(げんさい)先生から秋山図の存在を聞いた煙客(えんかく)翁は、潤州(じゅんしゅう)の張(ちょう)氏の家を訪れ、その神秘的な絵を目にする。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

この田舎の教会では、いつでも現世的な思いに押し返されるが、唯一人、真のキリスト教信者らしい憐れな老婆がいた。ある朝、私は人夫達が墓を掘っているのを教会の丘から眺めていた。その墓はあの老婦人の一人息子のためのものだった。近づいていくと、老母は息子の遺骸を見るのもこれが最後と、切ない思いにむせんでいるのが分かった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

ある村のやさしいおじいさんが、町へ用事で出かける。途中で公園の前で泣いている子供を見つけ、家に帰れずにいることを知る。おじいさんは子供を手助けしようと風船を買ってあげ、家を探そうとする。しばらくして子供の母親が現れ、子供を連れ戻す。 用事を済ませたおじいさんは村への帰り道で雪に降られ、道に迷ってしまう。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

『貧しき人々の群』『伸子』などの代表作で知られる昭和期に活動した作家による随筆。今日、産め、殖やせという標語を受けて優生結婚が言われるとき、結婚を真に生活たらしめていく互いの愛や理解の問題は、省略されている。おびただしいそれぞれの困難な辛苦の間で、二人がどんなに互いの評価と慰めと励ましとで生活を推し進めていったか。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

明治期における女性の社会的立場と自立について説かれた評論。前時代の社会が人の個性を無視し、男女それぞれにあるべき型を押し付けていた状況を批判し、明治維新後の五カ条の御誓文、憲法、教育勅語により、個人の権利と自由が尊重されるようになったと述べる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

夫の隆吉が兵隊に行って四年。あとに残った千穂子は、息子二人と共に義父の与平の家に引き取られて暮らす。義母のまつは中風症のため寝たきりで、千穂子は百姓仕事を手伝っていた。肉体の誘惑に負けた千穂子は与平と醜いちぎりを結んでしまい、女の子を産んでしまう。すでに終戦となり復員が始まっている。赤ん坊の貰い手はなかなか決まらない。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】サンフランシスコから渡船でオークランドに渡り、セミナリー・アヴェニューからミルスカレッジを通り過ぎた先にハイツがある。

What does infinity hold? Does anything or anyone get buried and remain quiet for all time, or is death just a second life that lasts forever? From traversing the gnarled roots of trees reaching from the sand like claws, to the moment where one finds out the price of justice and who serves it, to a masquerade that can be murder—this collection was created to frighten, engage, entice and, worse yet, make you wonder what awaits you in eternity when your number is up.

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.

A lonely terraforming AI is delighted when a spacecraft unexpectedly makes an emergency landing on his planet. Hoping that the mysterious woman aboard might want to stay, he strives to be the best host in the universe.

In his debut collection of short stories, Robert Sheehan disappears into characters, challenging the complacencies of everyday experience, often from entirely unexpected angles. Informed by the author’s peripatetic life, Disappearing Act reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour. Sheehan delves deep into his characters’ streams of self-talk and self-imposed delusions, exploring the dark impulses that lurk below the shiny surfaces of many outwardly normal lives.

When nature gets up close and personal, it isn’t always pretty. A fallen tree sparks a poisonous feud between neighbors. A child searches the darkness for the gleam of a tiger’s teeth. A woman holds off a colony of oddly relentless prairie dogs. In unsettling stories that range from horror to magical realism, award-winning authors lay bare the secrets hidden in the land.

Kabu kabu - unregistered, illegal Nigerian taxis - generally get you where you need to go. Nnedi Okorafor's Kabu Kabu, however, takes the listener to exciting, fantastic, magical, occasionally dangerous, and always imaginative locations you didn't know you needed. This debut short-story collection by an award-winning author includes notable previously published material, a new novella cowritten with New York Times best-selling author Alan Dean Foster, six additional original stories, and a brief foreword by Whoopi Goldberg.

The Best American Short Stories 2021 immerse the listener in powerfully imagined worlds and allowing them to bring some of that power into their own lives. From a stirring portrait of Rodney King’s final days to a surreal video game set in the Middle East, with real consequences, to an indigenous boy’s gripping escape from his captors, this collection renders profoundly empathetic depictions of the variety of human experience.

Based on Japanese literature and foldlore, Kwaidan contains 17 stories. The story of Loichi, the blind biwa player who was called to perform for the dead; of Muso, the journeying priest who encountered a man eating goblin; of the samurai who outwitted the ghost of a dead man. All these plus 14 other spooly tales are included in this collection.

Ghosts, specters, wraiths.... Restless undead spirits wail beneath the full moon and reach out for you from the swirling mists. The pain and loneliness of death drives them to seek the one thing they cannot have - the spark of life within your soul.... Scare Street presents volumes seven through nine of Terror in the Shadows, gathered into one spine-tingling tome. More than 30 stories of supernatural fear and suspense lurk with this macabre collection. Each one packed with a ghoulish assortment of creatures from beyond the grave.

Twenty-four short stories in fairly typical Bierce fashion - ghostly, spooky, to be listened to in the dark, perhaps with a light, crackling fire burning dimly in the background. Stories of ghosts, apparitions, and strange, inexplicable occurrences are prevalent in these tales, some of which occur on or near Civil War fields of battle, some in country cottages, and some within urban areas. Can Such Things Be? implies and relates that anything is possible, at any time.

“In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king” repeats in Chen Fangyuan’s mind after he finds himself trapped in a valley holding a community of people for whom a disease eliminated their vision many generations before and no longer have a concept of sight. Chen Fangyuan quickly finds that these people have developed their other senses to compensate for their lack of sight. His insistence that he can see causes the entire community to believe he is crazy.

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