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From the bestselling author of the Rebus detective series, a road worker is called on for a favour by the local loan shark...

フランス料理の評価について書かれた評論。世界第一と誇大に宣伝されてきたフランス料理を、筆者は外遊で実際に試し、その発達ぶりは幼稚だったと述べる。微妙な味の工夫や見て楽しむ美が欠けていたといい、原因を素材の不良に求める。米英仏独伊を回ったが良質な牛肉がなく、魚も日本の百分の一程度。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】海岸のホテルで、女優が一人の青年を見初める。彼女は年齢を取りすぎたが評判の良い女優で、夏休みに一人で泳ぎに来ていた。青年は美青年ではなく不器用な感じだが、それが彼女の心を引いた。二人はヴェランダでよく一緒になるが、青年は臆病で、彼女と顔を合わせると真っ赤になってそっぽを向く。

This is a book about memories, love, sex and the power of the imagination to see us through the most difficult times. The women of Reality, Reality are mesmerising, whether in love or in solitude. Jackie Kay’s newest and most luminous of collections is full of compassion, generosity, sorrow...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】織田作之助の随筆。秋という季節が持つ独特の感受性や、そこに絡む孤独、そして自然の美しさを語っている。

Hercule Poirot is reluctant to answer a letter demanding his services by the reclusive and eccentric millionaire Benedict Farley. Farley wants him to diagnose his recurring dream of death, in which he shoots himself at precisely 3:28 p.m. Then, a week after dismissing Poirot, the dream becomes...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】夫・文太郎は出勤前、頭がウイスキー臭くなっていることに気づき、妻・エミ子に問い詰める。エミ子は、夫が自分のオーデコロンをフケ取り代わりに使うので懲らしめにウイスキーと入れ替えたと種明かしし、これは四月一日の「四月馬鹿」だと説明する。

“While a single sentence can turn a novel, a single word can turn a short story,” writes guest editor Don Winslow. The pieces featured in this collection hinge on those small, exacting moments that shock, spook, delight, and change a story entirely. A disgraced ex-cop approaches a crossroads...

『貧しき人々の群』『伸子』『播州平野』『道標』などの代表作で知られ、昭和期に活動した作家の随筆。今日、社会の機構は我々の「純情」を活かしきれないものになっている。娘、愛人、妻として生きる女の一生は、種々の不如意に制約されている。一人の女が自分のもつすべての魅力、智恵、真率さをそのまま、愛する者を愛して幸福に生きたいという欲望の実現に生かし切ることは、不可能になりつつある。

河水は行方も知らずに、前にも後にも仲間を連ねて、昼となく夜となく流れていく。ある日そこへ、黄色く破れた袋のようなバナナの皮が飛び込んでくる。南洋の林にあった頃のさわやかな香りをまだ残したバナナの皮は、冷たい水の上で目を覚まし、「ここはどこですか」と驚く。

赤煉瓦の松金工場がストライキで沈黙した。作業中に交渉が決裂し、全員が引き揚げてから一週間、工場内には截断機に噛ませたままの鉄材やハンマーが、その瞬間の姿をとどめていた。争議団は土堤に押しかけて労働歌を歌い、警備の巡査たちは事態を見守っている。

"다정한 존재의 무게는 가벼울 수 없다"작은 이웃과 가까워지는 열 편의 짧은 소설『공공연한 고양이』는 이제는 우리에게 친숙하고 소중한 존재가 된 '고양이'에 관한 열 편의 짧은 소설을 모은 작품집이다. 제목 '공공연한...

Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She has never even been on a weekend away with her boyfriend. Everyone knows she is just not the adventurous type. But, when her boyfriend doesn't turn up for their romantic mini-break, Nell has the chance to prove everyone wrong. Alone in Paris...

The award winning series of classic and contemporary fiction returns with a collection of darkly funny short stories by the likes of Stephen King, Neil Gaiman, Aimee Bender, A.M. Homes, Nathan Englander, Kim, Addonizio, and George Saunders. Readers include Anjelica Huston, Neil Gaiman, Michael Imperioli, Harris Yulin, Christina Pickles, Jefferson Mays, and Christine Ebersole.

This collection contains: "Idle Thoughts on Babies"; "The Schartz-Meterklume Method"; "A Photographer's Day Out"; and more.

CSA Word continues its ever-popular series of classic short stories, featuring writers such as Jerome K. Jerome, Louisa May Alcott and Saki, read by such respected and revered readers as Derek Jacobi, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry.

Boris Karloff, Raymond Massey and Christopher Hassall read a selection of Rudyard Kipling's finest short stories and poetry. Also included in this celebration is Kipling himself giving a speech to a group of Canadian authors and reflecting on war.

Die Hörbuchbox „Wunderliche Herzen" aus der „Bibliothek Europa" präsentiert Meisterwerke der Literatur und Philosophie in großer Vielfalt der Genres, Themen und Epochen. Lewis Carrolls „Alice im Wunderland" ist und bleibt ein fantasiereicher, verrückter Klassiker für Kinder jeden Alters. Im naturalistischen Drama „Fräulein Julie" von August Strindberg lässt der Schwede den Sprengstoff des Herzens und den Sprengstoff des Klassenkampfes effektvoll explodieren.

From Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the Orange Prize-winning author of Half of a Yellow Sun, come twelve dazzling stories in which she turns her penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. Searing and profound, suffused with beauty, sorrow and...

When Candy hears of the murder of her son's classmate on her estate she's horrified, but then the police arrive. What does this crime have to do with her? Or is her son not telling her something?...