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ソロー（1817―62）は，ウォールデン湖畔の森の中に自らの手で小屋を建て，自給自足の生活を始めた．湖水と森の四季の佇まい，動植物の生態，読書と思索――自然と共に生きた著者の生活記録であると同時に「どう生きるべきか」という根本問題を探求した最も今日的・普遍的なアメリカ文学の古典．

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...

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。

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。

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 One spring morning, a stranger named Theo arrives in the small Southern city of Golden. He...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST ...

READ BY SISSY SPACEK Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read "One of the most—if not the most—beloved of American novels." —The New Yorker Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the...

Ein universeller Roman über Genuss, Lebenskunst und die Geschichte einer weiblichen Befreiung. Für alle LeserInnen von Han Kangs "Vegetarierin", Sayaka Muratas "Ladenhüterin" und Mieko Kawakamis "Brüste und Eier". Rika, eine junge Journalistin in Tokio, recherchiert über die Serienmörderin Manako Kajii, die Männer mit ihren Kochkünsten verführt und anschließend umgebracht haben soll. Manako behauptet, sie verabscheut nichts mehr als "Margarine und Feministinnen" und hat eine ausgeprägte Leidenschaft für hemmungslosen Genuss und insbesondere Butter.

Two wildly different sisters experiencing spectacular midlife implosions. One mother who cannot believe they’re both living under her roof again. Henley is forty-something, thrice-divorced, unemployed, and desperate to become a mother. Back in her childhood home in suburban Detroit, she...

From New York Times bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief comes a campus spy novel about ambition, love, and belonging, following two rival graduate students who find themselves on opposite sides of an international FBI investigation. In science, nothing stays secret for long. Fall quarter...

In the quiet town of Maynard, North Carolina, Police Chief Clay Finley is used to handling small crimes and familiar faces. But when a local robbery turns personal, that order begins to collapse. One of the masked suspects is his estranged brother, Tyson. Before Clay can gather evidence, the case escalates. A wife disappears. A bank is robbed. What first looks like a string of unrelated crimes begins to feel deliberate—and deeply personal.

"Delaney Nolan has written a brutal, joyful, surprising, and gorgeous novel of human contradictions. It’s a stunner."—Julia Phillips, author of Bear and Disappearing Earth Hernan Diaz meets Ottessa Moshfegh in this madcap road trip chronicle; a moving display of human connection in the face...

The past is never dead. It's not even past. Loyal May has returned to her hometown of Jacknife, Louisiana, a place she fled a decade earlier after a falling-out with her best friend, Cutter Labasque. Working at the local news outlet, she takes care of her ailing mother and hopes to right the...

Daniel Park hasn't written a sentence in fourteen months. His agent has stopped pretending. His advance is spent. He has six weeks to deliver the novel he's owed his publisher or surrender money he no longer has. So he does what writers like him do when their lives are on fire; he retreats to a cabin in the woods. October on a ridge in LaRue County, Kentucky. Gravel road. Dead cell signal. Fog so thick in the hollow that the road back disappears at sundown. On the second night, he finds the journal in the attic. Leather. Warm to the touch. Pages thick and waiting.

A vigorous call to restore imagination, judgment, and intellectual courage to American culture. In this essay from Civilization in the United States, J. E. Spingarn challenges universities and critics to recover the purpose behind their learning. He questions scholarship reduced to collecting...

Inscriptions in the Wind is a deeply moving collection of poetry that captures the emotional journey of a lifetime, love discovered, love lost, faith tested, memories cherished, and meaning sought in the quiet moments of reflection. Spanning decades of personal expression, this collection invites listeners into the intimate landscape of the human heart. Through lyrical verse and heartfelt storytelling, W. Cary Perkins explores the full spectrum of emotion, romance and longing, joy and sorrow, faith and doubt, hope and remembrance.

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Estaba dispuesto a ejercer sus derechos conyugales… Lo último que Meg Hamilton quería oír era que el marido al que había intentado olvidar había pasado el último año injustamente encarcelado en Brasil y necesitaba que lo visitara...

A Dead Woman. A Crooked Sheriff. A Reporter Who Won’t Back Down. Catalina Cruz came to town for her first big TV news assignment. What she found instead was a gruesome murder, a sheriff who ruled through fear, and secrets so dangerous people were willing to kill to protect them. As a young Latina reporter determined to prove herself, Catalina is used to being underestimated. But when a small-town murder pulls her into a web of crime, corruption, and long-buried secrets, asking questions becomes dangerous.

Regina Gottlieb had been warned about Professor Nicholas Brodeur long before arriving as a graduate student at his prestigious university high on a pastoral hill. He's said to lie in the dark in his office while undergraduate women read couplets to him. He's condemned on the walls of the women's...

The subject of Kokoro, which can be translated as 'the heart of things' or as 'feeling,' is the delicate matter of the contrast between the meanings the various parties of a relationship attach to it. In the course of this exploration, Soseki brilliantly describes different levels of friendship, family relationships, and the devices by which men attempt to escape from their fundamental loneliness. The novel sustains throughout its length something approaching poetry, and it is rich in understanding and insight.