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One winter evening a shoemaker finds a mysterious stranger naked and freezing by a shrine in his small village. The shoemaker rescues the man, and takes him home. Though the stranger won’t say where he came from, Simon invites him to work beside him, and stay with his family. As the story unfolds, the stranger transforms, and ultimately reveals an astonishing and deeply moving secret. Late in Tolstoy’s life, after he had written his great masterpieces War and Peace, and Anna Karenina, he underwent a spiritual transformation.

In her remarkable stories of seemingly ordinary people living extraordinary lives, Miranda July reveals how a single moment can change everything. Whether writing about a middle-aged woman's obsession with Prince William, or an aging factory worker who has never been in love, the result is startling, sexy and tender by turns. One of the most acclaimed debuts of recent years, Miranda July is a brilliant new voice in fiction.

Revenge, death, and destruction abound in this early short story by H.P. Lovecraft. The story follows Antoine, a count who is last in line to die at the age of 32 due to a curse put on his family hundreds of years prior. His ancestor, being responsible for the death, brought about the curse, and Antoine was left to watch all his family, including his manservant, die an early death. But when his time comes and he is exploring the castle in wait, he manages to successfully end the curse by deflecting the fatal blow of Charles - the son of the man who was killed so many years ago.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】旧い知人の細田氏は、大戦前の記憶では、いつもポマードを塗った漆黒の髪に、新しい形の縁無し眼鏡をかけ、しゃれた格好をした男であった。しかし、久しぶりに会った彼は軍服のような服を着て、丸坊主で、無精ひげもはやしており、以前とは様子が一変していた。そして、唐突に「私は、正気ですよ。正気ですよ」と言ったかと思うと、「あなたと私は兄弟だ」「私たちの母は実は私の妻だ」と

CONTENTS: 01. The Nameless City 02. The Festival 03-04. The Colour Out of Space 05-07. The Call of Cthulhu 08-17. The Dunwich Horror 18-25. The Whisperer in Darkness 26 . A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson 27-28.The Haunter of the Dark 29-33. The Shadow Over Innsmouth 34. Discarded Draft of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" 35-42. The Shadow Out of Time 43-54. At the Mountains of Madness 55-79.The Case of Charles Dexter Ward 80. Azathoth 81. Beyond the Wall of Sleep 82. Celephaïs 83. Cool Air 84. Dagon 85. Ex Oblivione.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

戦火を逃れ、東京から津軽の生家に戻った「私」は、病を抱えつつ政治活動に励む兄のもとで居候の身となる。静かな日々の中、兄は庭の草むしりを始め、庭木の手入れの話から、いつしか千利休と秀吉の話へ。兄の語りは熱を帯びていたが、聞く私は反発と敬意の間で揺れていた。

A man who sleeps for 20 years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world. This is an American classic!

The life of a Scrivener can be a dull one. After all, your entire occupation has to do with the handwritten copying of law documents. But when Bartleby arrives, he turns the office upside down with the enigmatic phrase: “I prefer not to.”

What strange science made Nameless who he is? What catastrophes have been erased from his memories? In the stunning conclusion of this series, the dark past comes flooding back, and Nameless must decide how much he really wants to know. In Indiana, a murderous psycho has kidnapped his own six-year-old stepson, Jamie, and secreted him away in a subterranean cave. It’s become their bunker. For Nameless, the case is breaking down his defenses, and it may force him to face his memories.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】『貧しき人々の群』『道標』などの代表作で知られ、昭和期に活動した作家の社会評論。多くの女性の生活には、文化らしいものがもたらされていない。新しくなろうと願う女性を「旧い力」が引き戻そうとする。「日本精神」という四字は、過去数十年間、軍国主義的な狂言によってその道を遮った。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

相対性理論・量子論の研究で知られ、大正・昭和期に活動した理論物理学者が綴る、フランスの化学者、微生物学者の伝記。パストゥールのおかげで微生物学は大いに進歩し、伝染病がそれほど恐ろしいものではなくなった。微生物によって起こされる病気からの免疫の方法も解明した。

"HARROWING THRILLS . . . FAST-PACED AND ENGAGING." --People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to...

An essential collection of classic stories that established Flannery O’Connor’s reputation as an American master of fiction—now with a new introduction by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Groff In 1955, with the title story and others in this critical edition, Flannery O’Connor...

O. Henry’s gift for dark humor and plot twists reaches new levels in this simple yet very moving story. Miss Martha’s corner bakery receives a mysterious visitor buying two loaves of stale bread every day. When her sympathetic heart finally pushes her to an act of kindness, her romantic daydreams are brutally crushed by a rather uninspired reality.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】階級と芸術についての評論。雑誌『改造』で発表した「宣言一つ」への批評を受け、自身の見解を改めて述べる。従来、個性の内的衝動に重点を置いて物を言ってきたが、その立場は今も変わらない。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】父母、祖母、五人の幼い子供たちが、ランプを消して引っ越しのために家を出て行く。

Much of Richard Matheson's work has found its way into pop culture: The title story became a memorable episode of television's The Twilight Zone, and more recently, Will Smith starred in the blockbuster movie I Am Legend. Stephen King has declared Matheson to be one of his favorite writers. Find out why as you listen to the classic horror story of a man who peers out of his airplane window to see a gremlin destroying the wing.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】私はある絵画展覧会の一室で、「沼地」と題された小さな油絵を発見した。画家は知名の人ではなく、尋常の見物からは一顧さえも受けなかったであろう。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】星の三姉妹は下界に憧れ、森の中の睡蓮の泉に一度だけでも入ってみたいと願っていた。ある日、月の夫人に教えられ、蜘蛛の王が垂らす糸を伝って、三人は泉のほとりへ降りていく。着物を脱いで水浴びをする間に、泉のそばで寝ていた若い猟人が、三人のうち一番美しい妹の金銀と宝石で飾られた着物を盗んでしまう。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】少年・政ちゃんが橋のところで、かつて飼っていた犬ペスを見たと言う。ペスは以前、犬殺しに連れられていったが、逃げ出してきたらしい。兄の達ちゃんと正ちゃんは政ちゃんの話を疑うが、翌日、徳ちゃんに確認するとどうやら本当のことらしい。徳ちゃんが見た犬には、白い背中に赤い丸の斑があったという。それはぺスの特徴の「日の丸」と同じ模様だった。