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In the 1840s, Charles Dickens wrote five short stories with strong social and moral messages. "The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home", is the third of these stories. Following the home life of John Peerybingle, the story introduces the many people in John's family and life, along with a cricket that acts as the guardian angel of the family. Like its predecessors, this story also contains heavy social and moral implications.

From Pulitzer Prize - winning book critic Michael Dirda comes a collection of his most personal and engaging essays on the literary life - the perfect companion for any lover of books. Dirda's latest volume collects fifty of his witty and wide-ranging reflections on literary journalism, book collecting, and the writers he loves. Reaching from the classics to the postmoderns, his allusions dance from Samuel Johnson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and M. F. K. Fisher to Marilynne Robinson, Hunter S. Thompson, and David Foster Wallace.

With rich, pure prose Hoffman charts the progress of Gretel Samuelson from the time she is a young girl already acquainted with betrayal and grief, until she finally leaves home. Gretel's sly, funny, knowing perspective is at the heart of this collection, as she navigates through loyalty and loss with the help of an unforgettable trio of women: her best friend, Jill, her romance-addled cousin Margot, and her mother, Franny, whose spiritual journey affects them all.

The New York Times best seller from the author of Slaughterhouse-Five—a “gripping” posthumous collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s previously unpublished work on the subject of war and peace. A fitting tribute to a literary legend and a profoundly humane humorist, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of 12 previously unpublished writings. Imbued with Vonnegut's trademark rueful humor and outraged moral sense.

Prepare to meet the most seductively female and the most shockingly fatal of femmes fatales, brought to you by 17 of today's finest authors of mystery and suspense fiction. Award-winning editor Otto Penzler presents a collection of short and sizzling masterpieces of kisses and kiss-offs, gams and gats, published for the first time anywhere.

A Stephen King ghost story in the grand tradition, Riding the Bullet is the ultimate warning about the dangers of hitchhiking. Lock those car doors before listening!

Diverse, provocative, eerie, and inspired, this collection of Jeffery Deaver's best stories exhibits the amazing range and signature plot twists that have earned him the title "master of ticking-bomb suspense" by People. With nods to O. Henry and Edgar Allan Poe, these beautifully crafted pieces pulse with subtle intrigue and Deaver's incomparable imagination.

Hailed by Thomas Pynchon as "graceful, dark, authentic, and funny," George Saunders gives us, in his inventive and beloved voice, this best-selling collection of stories set against a warped, hilarious, and terrifyingly recognizable American landscape.

In the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky - a late-19th-century Russian émigré and mathematician - on a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and Denmark, where she has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician.

David Suchet, Poirot to perfection, returns with five further short stories taken from the collection entitled Poirot's Early Cases. The short stories included in this audiobook are 'The Plymouth Express', 'The Submarine Plans', 'Problem at Sea', 'How Does Your Garden Grow?' and 'The Market Basing Mystery'.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】坂口安吾は、葬式や通夜といった儀式を無意味で退屈なものとし、葬式に出席しない主義を貫いている。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】海辺の村に住む松蔵少年は、バイオリンを弾く旅の薬売りのおじいさんと親しくなる。おじいさんは松蔵にバイオリンの弾き方を教え、別れ際に自身のバイオリンを形見として託す。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】麹町三番町に住んでいた当時、私は枕許に五、六冊の本を置いて寝るのが習慣だった。その晩もランプを点けたまま、読みさしの本を脇に置いてうとうとしていた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】リスボン滞在中の「私」と密偵の白木豹二は、ゼルシー島へ向かった。目的は、島の城塞に隠された敵性国イギリスの暗号の鍵を探し出すこと。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】ある時、漁師が海で大きなヒラメを釣る。ヒラメが自分は魔法をかけられた王子だと言うので逃がしてあげる。漁師は小屋に帰り、その出来事をおかみさんに話す。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】旅や人生の象徴としての「風景」を通じて、人間の生き方や精神の在り方を描き出す。第一部では、自然豊かな道を進む二人の旅人が描かれ、彼らの希望と困難が交錯する。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】小学校の頃、正雄の組へ水野という女の子が転入してきた。彼女は「きつね」というあだ名で呼ばれ、いじめられていた。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】”私”と弟は、亡き父の遺骨を郷里へ送り、菩提寺で葬儀を執り行うために準備を進めていた。父は東京で弟一家と暮らしていたが、持病の脚気が悪化し亡くなった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】洋行から帰国した加奈子は、4年ぶりの日本の風景や文化の違いに感慨を抱きつつも、旧友であるお京さんの住む裏町を訪れる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

旅行先から急電によって兄の見舞いに来た道太は、しばらくの間、廓を営むおひろの家の二階に滞在することになる。姪の縁談をめぐるごたごたで、誰にも会いたくなかったのだ。その家にはおひろの姉お絹が世話焼きに来ていた。事情が許せば、彼女と同棲しうる時の幸福を想像したりするが、道太は何をするでもなしに日を送る。