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翻訳家・柴田元幸が長年愛読してきたアメリカ古典小説から選りすぐった、究極の「ザ・ベスト・オブ・ザ・ベスト」。アメリカ古典文学の途方もない豊かさを堪能できるアンソロジーを、同書の編訳を手がけた柴田元幸による朗読でお送りいたします。

A hilarious and heartwarming New York Times bestselling novel—the basis for the acclaimed major motion picture! "There's rich, there's filthy rich, and then there's crazy rich ... A Pride and Prejudice-like send-up about an heir bringing his Chinese-American girlfriend home to meet his...

両親が他界し孤児となったメアリは、インドからイギリス北部に住むクレイヴン叔父の屋敷に引き取られる。可愛くもなくわがままな性格のメアリは、ある日、見捨てられた「秘密の庭」を見つけ強く惹きつけられる。

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING PHENOMENON A Katie Couric Book Club Pick A Jen Hatmaker Book Club Pick “[A] word-of-mouth smash hit.” —The New York Times “A treasure.” —Hoda Kotb “To Kill a Mockingbird for this generation.” —The Dallas Morning News One spring morning, a...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Miles Reed never intended to change history. One moment, he is a 25-year-old AI enthusiast living in 2026. The next, he is stranded in 1861 with a damaged phone, limited power, and AURA—an offline AI agent carrying knowledge from a future that has not...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A clear and accessible guide to William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, one of the most demanding novels in American literature. This book reconstructs the Compson family story, explains the novel’s fragmented chronology, and analyzes the...

A brilliant, time-skewing novel about art, love, and deeply held secrets from New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg What happens when, over the course of twenty-four hours, your lifelong dream suddenly goes up in flames? Who are you when your dreams disappear, and how do you live...

Como é viver à sombra de um mito? Ou, pior, de um legítimo rei do rock: John Lennon. Essa é a sina de Juan LMK, que pelos desígnios do acaso nasceu no mesmo dia, hora e hospital onde morria o gênio dos Beatles. Estamos em 2020, e a banda de Juan, a...

システム＝体制に抵抗する者たちの鮮烈な冒険譚 ［原題］ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST 収録作品 第一部 第

Dora Minor, a quirky and fiercely courageous girl, grows up in a remote Virginia mountain community in a family of outliers, thanks to their Quaker beliefs that all people are born equal. After her mother’s death, her indomitable, pipe-smoking grandmother Alma—a revolutionary in her own right—becomes her primary caregiver and protector. With a fierce moral compass, Alma helps shape Dora’s worldview and guides her to question the status quo.

Et dødbringende virus spredes hastigt i befolkningen, mens myndighederne kæmper en forgæves kamp mod smitten. Først for sent går det op for alle, at virusset ikke alene er dødbringende, det bringer også de døde til live igen. En række skæbner kastes ud i en desperat kamp for...

I et goldt og brutalt hjørne af universet kredser planeten Timanoon om solen Sila. Timanoon er arnested for slaveri, minedrift og menneskelig udnyttelse. Her er frihed en illusion, og menneskeliv en ressource. Tamira er minearbejder i mørket under jorden. Som barn var hun eksotisk selskab for...

In this buoyant novel blending magical realism with heartfelt family drama, a woman at life’s crossroads reinvents herself in the haunted hallways of her family’s hotel. Annie Torres needs to do something great…fast. According to her late mother, women should find their greatness before...

En rigtig gyser foregår i hjemmet. Huset som den ukendte modstander går helt tilbage til Horace Walpoles Slottet i Otranto fra 1764, og det bruges stadig i horrorlitteraturen i dag. Det, der burde være vores base og vores skjold, vender sig pludselig imod os. Sådan er det også i Shirley...

Vi har altid boet på slottet er klassikeren, du aldrig har fået læst. Det er nemlig først nu, at Shirley Jacksons anmelderroste gyser fra 1962 udkommer på dansk. Leonora Christina Skov har skrevet forord. Du skal læse denne roman, hvis du er til en mørk, humoristisk og gotisk fortælling...

To fortællinger, der foregår i vidt forskellige universer, løber parallelt i Haruki Murakamis første store roman. I den ene er handlingen lagt i storbyen Tokyo i en ikke fjern fremtid, hvor den sidste overlevende fra et uhyggeligt hjerneeksperiment involveres i en hæsblæsende...

Erstmals 1855 erschienen und von Walt Whitman bis zu seinem Tod 1892 immer wieder bearbeitet und erweitert, stellen die "Grashalme" unzweifelhaft eines der Hauptwerke der amerikanischen Lyrik dar. In seinen "Grashalmen" sprengte Walt Whitman alle damals bestehenden Konventionen durch den Einsatz freier Rhythmen und das Anschlagen eines hymnischen Tons, der das Individuum in seiner kosmischen Dimension wie auch die Demokratie in ihrer Vielstimmigkeit auf eine bis dahin ungelesene und unerhörte Weise feiert.

Start a new tradition by ending each evening with a poem. Written as a series of goodnights, Goodnight, Poet invites you to pause and savor the day's final moments. Whether shared with someone you love or enjoyed alone with a warm cup of tea, these poems offer tenderness, wonder, and a reminder that beauty waits in the dark.

En este volumen se recoge una cuidada recopilación de mitos, leyendas y narraciones populares de la India. Son historias de gran belleza e interés intrínseco y sirven, además, para conocer de cerca una cultura milenaria y profunda que empleó extensivamente la literatura no solo para difundir sus ideas religiosas, sino también como el más adecuado medio de enseñanza para los jóvenes.