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The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits - an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies - who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, “that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.”

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】探偵小説に対する考えを綴ったエッセイ。友人らと犯人当てをして楽しむ中で、日本の探偵小説はミステリー要素が強く、推理が弱いと気付く。

遊び相手を探して外に出たゆり子は、道で菊の花のような模様の金色のボタンを拾う。おまわりさんに届けなくていいかと考えるうち、仲よしの正ちゃんにせがまれ、勲章のように胸へつけたいという彼にあげてしまう。だが原っぱで年上の清二に空へ投げられ、ボタンは行方知れずになる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】戦争に負けて、北海道へ出征中のお父さんが三年ぶりに帰ってきた。ようやく会社に勤めるようになり、今にきっといいことがあると真面目に働く。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

斎藤茂吉の実体験に基づいた随筆。関東大震災を海外で経験した日本人留学生の視点から、震災直後の混乱と情報不足の状況、そして徐々に真相が明らかになっていく過程が描かれる。1923年9月3日、ミュンヘンに滞在中の斎藤茂吉は、日本で大地震が発生したという新聞記事を目にする。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】職業としての新聞記者の苦労について語った随筆。筆者は幼少の頃、女弁護士になりたいと答えていたが、最終的に女新聞記者となった。社会に出て、名士や夫人を訪問する仕事を与えられたが、東京の地理も分からず、訪問先を探すのに二時間もかかってしまった。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】昭和当時の社会背景、恋愛観、結婚観についての随筆。

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.

The story of Paxton, an antiquarian and archaeologist who holidays in "Seaburgh" and inadvertently stumbles across one of the lost crowns of Anglia, which legendarily protect the country from invasion. 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.

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.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】赤坂の芸者・梅龍が、去年箱根塔の澤で大水に遭った時の話を語る。梅龍は姐さん、玉龍、若菜、女中のお富と五人で箱根へ湯治に行った。姐さんは日本一と唄われた美人で、何事にも狼狽を見せない女である。ある晩、梅龍が髪を洗っていると洪水が起こり、逃げることになった。真暗な中、半鐘の音や人の騒ぐ声が聞こえ、川岸の芸者屋が川へ落ちたというーー。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】むかし、冬の日、王妃が血のように赤い頬、雪のように白い肌、黒檀のような黒髪の子を望み、白雪姫が生まれるが、王妃は亡くなる。

In this romantic and comic story about class, language, and the art of reinvention, “Nebraska Jack" Rigel is about to quit his Latin studies program at the Vatican when he suddenly finds himself face-to-face with the mysterious and ethereal Angelina Amadio, the famous Angel of Rome. Hired to translate the romantic feelings of the unpredictable former TV detective Ronnie Tower, Jack must navigate these two forces of nature in a Rome of late night bars and fancy villas, as he searches for his own role to play.

O. Henry's short stories are well known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings.

A story by Edgar Allan Poe about a black cat, or rather two black cats. The narrator relates his own story about how he deteriorated from a man who loved animals to a cruel abuser. He thought that he had gotten away with murder, but the second black cat exposed his crime.

A holiday classic by Charles Dickens. Originally published in 1843, Dickens worried about the disparity between the wealthy and the impoverished, and it was his attempt to bring this disparity into the light of day, to appeal to the die-hard capitalists to take care of the downtrodden masses. Since this inequity continues, this story is still popular, and will probably continue to be so for the foreseeable future. 

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.

【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】

官吏の木村は毎朝六時に起床し、規則正しい生活を送る役人であり、また文学者としても知られている。彼は役所で非常に効率的に仕事をこなすが、同僚からは真面目さが欠けているように見えると言われている。それは、木村はすべての物事を「あそび」として捉えており、子供が遊ぶように仕事に向き合うという生来の性格からくるものであった。