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Though The Arabian Nights are generally known as stories for children, they were originally tales for adults full of adventure, sexuality, violence, and the supernatural. They certainly inspired the imagination of Sir Richard Burton, the 19th century explorer, linguist, and erotologist who brought all his worldly experience and superbly expressive prose style to bear on the tales of Sindbad the Seaman and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

"He travels fastest who travels alone...but not after the frost has dropped below zero 50 degrees or more." (Yukon Code) Jack London’s best short story.

Herman Melville’s tale of corporate discontent, Bartleby, the Scrivener, tells the story of a quiet, hardworking legal copyist who works in an office in the Wall Street area of New York City. The business where he works handles the official financial paperwork of wealthy men. One day, Bartleby’s employer requests he proofread one of the documents he has copied. Bartleby declines the assignment with the inscrutable “I would prefer not,” the first of what will become many refusals.

To Build a Fire is the best known of all London's stories. It tells the story of a new arrival to the Klondike who stubbornly ignores warnings about the folly of traveling alone. He falls through the ice into a creek in 70-below weather, and his survival depends on being able to build a fire and dry his clothes—which he is unable to do. The famous version of this story was published in 1908.

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東京の芝区にある質屋で、女房が五、六歳の娘を残して病死したため、所天は後妻を迎えた。後妻は従順で愉快そうな女性で、継子にも真の母親のような愛情を示したため、継子も懐き所天も安心だった。しかし、しばらくすると後妻は黙り込み、口数が少なくなってしまう。

O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and clever twist endings. This collection includes "The Last Leaf", "The Love Philter of Ikey Schoenstein", "The Caliph", "Cupid and the Clock", "The Brief Debut of Tildy", "The Higher Abdication", "The Ransom of Red Chief", "One Dollar’s Worth", "Cupid a la Carte", "Girl", "Springtime a la Carte", "The Ethics of Pig", "The Social Triangle", "Witches Loaves", "The Romace of the Buys Broker", and more.

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左衛門という年老いた人相見が、三河の国の八ツ橋で泉谷という長者の家を訪れた。主の彦右衛門から継橋にまつわる憐れな伝説を聞いた後、菓子皿を持ってきた娘のお蘭の人相に不吉の形を見る。縁で二人だけになると、左衛門は死を覚悟したお蘭に正直に話すよう諭す。

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旗本家臣の塚三十郎は、愛人おきたのために辻斬りで得た金を使い贈り物をしていた。おきたは浮世絵に描かれて評判を得た茶汲み女だが、三十郎の金の出どころに不安を抱く。かつておきたと恋仲だった新発意(出家して間もない者)の源空は、過去の関係を想いながら彼女の姿を見守り続けていた。ある夜、三十郎とおきたが駆け落ちを決意するが、二人の背後に源空が現れる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】彼は北海道に大きな農場を開墾させている父と共に現地を訪れる。父が農場を持とうとするのは彼の将来を思ってのことだった。

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北海道の家庭に三人の子供たちが生まれる。最初の子供の出産は困難を極めたが、無事に生まれた。その後、二人目、三人目と子供が生まれ、若い夫婦は三人の子供の親となった。しかし、幸せな日々は長く続かなかった。母親が結核を患い、入院することになる。父親は仕事と子育ての両立に苦心し、母親は一時退院することになったが、病状は悪化の一途をたどってしまう。

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私がいそいそと見合いに出掛けたと嗤う人がいるが、華やかな結婚を夢見ているわけではない。約束の場所に行くと、相手は一時間も遅刻し、しかも酒を飲んでいた。こんな人とは結婚するものかと思ったが、婚約した。二人きりで夕食に誘われた時には、勘定書を見た途端、彼はみるみる蒼くなった。同僚に無心されて貸してしまい、払えないのだ。

Strong female protagonists grace this collection of passionate stories dedicated to mothers, daughters, wives, and lovers. A woman splurges on an irresistible coat that becomes her; a feisty teenager who has grown up as her activist mother¿s poster-child realizes the strength of her own convictions; and a young peasant woman saved from drowning is suddenly drawn to her rescuer and hopeful about her life.

A collection of poignant, romantic and funny tales performed by Academy Award -winning actor William Hurt. This collection includes a bonus track of an exclusive interview with William Hurt. Hurt's readings are thoughtful, tender, romantic, and resonant. A treasure.

Unlike the other arts, American literature has been a powerful, influential, and leading aspect of American culture. By turns sedate and mercurial and possessing a moral mind set of various social values, the American short story reveals in its pages the psyche of a growing, sprawling nation whose sense of destiny has always been larger than life. Here are seven masterpieces that will make you smile, make you frown, and leave you pondering the mystery that surrounds the soul of a great nation.

Dashing young Edmond Dantès has everything: a fine reputation, an appointment as captain of a ship, and the heart of a beautiful woman. But his perfect life is shattered when three jealous friends conspire to destroy him. Falsely accused of a political crime, Dantès is locked away for life in the infamous Chateau d'If prison. But it is there that Dantès learns of a vast hidden treasure.

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.

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昭和期に世界で初めて人工雪を作ることに成功した物理学者の随筆。敗戦後の日本がアメリカから輸入した六三制という新学制。十年の年月を経て、さまざまな欠陥が浮かび出ている。六三制が日本の国情に合わないのは、まずは入学試験のない国で生まれた学制を日本に適用したこと。

Dyma 8 stori newydd gan rai o awduron gorau Cymru (Lois Arnold, Mared Lewis, Siôn Tomos Owen, Elinor Wyn Reynolds, Bethan Gwanas, Guto Dafydd, Meleri Wyn James a Manon Steffan Ros) i ddysgwyr sy wedi cyrraedd Lefel Sylfaen. Mae rhai straeon yn digwydd yn ystod cyfnod y coronafeirws.

A young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family, menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night, a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort and cruelty.

Eighteen of the very best American short stories, each a classic in its own right. Stories include "The Little Frenchman and his Water Lots", by George Pope Morris; "The Angel of the Odd", by Edgar Allan Poe; "The Schoolmasters’s Progress", by Caroline M.S. Kirkland; "The Watkinson Evening", by Eliza Leslie; "Titbottom’s Spectacles", by George William Curtis; "My Double and "How He Undid Me", by Edward Everett Hale; "A Visit to the Asylum for Aged and Decayed Punsters", by Oliver Wendell; and more.