検索キーワード： 制作 "Audible Studios" アメリカ

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．

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。

كتاب «أبيات القصيد» هو مختارات أدبية منتقاة بعناية من أجمل وأشهر أبيات الشعر العربي، اختارها غازي القصيبي. يحتفي الكتاب بثراء الشعر العربي الأصيل، ويبرز أبياتًا خالدة تجسد الحكمة، والبلاغة، وجمال التعبير، لتأخذ القارئ في رحلة ممتعة بين روائع التراث الشعري العربي وقيمه الإنسانية الخالدة.

Over 50 years, Charles M. Schulz created a comic strip that is one of the indisputable glories of American popular culture. Some 20 years after the last strip appeared, the characters Schulz brought to life in Peanuts continue to resonate with millions of fans, their beguiling four-panel adventures and television escapades offering lessons about happiness, friendship, disappointment, childhood, and life itself. Here, 33 writers and artists reflect on the deeper truths of Schulz’s deceptively simple comic, its impact on their lives and art and on the broader culture.

巨大な白い鯨〈モービィ・ディック〉をめぐって繰り広げられる，アメリカの作家メルヴィル（1819―1891）の最高傑作．本書は海洋冒険小説の枠組みに納まりきらない，法外なスケールとスタイルを誇る，象徴性に満ちあふれた「知的ごった煮」であり，およそ鯨に関することは何もかも盛り込んだ「鯨の百科全書」でもある．

A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the esteemed Bookmarked series, acclaimed author Brian Evenson offers his personal and literary take on this classic Carver collection.

＜モービィ・ディック＞との遭遇をまえにして，さまざまな国籍の多岐にわたる人種をのせた，アメリカを象徴するような捕鯨船＜ピークオッド号＞の航海はつづく．ほかの船との＜出あい＞を織りまぜながら，鯨と捕鯨に関する＜百科全書的＞な博識が，倦むことなく，衒学的なまでに次から次へと開陳されていく．新訳．(全3冊)

1854年に刊行された本書は，自然とともに生きた著者ソロー（1817―62）の忠実な生活記録であると同時に，「どう生きるべきか」という人生の根本問題を探求した哲学の書ともいえよう．環境問題が深刻化した現代，最も普遍的・今日的なアメリカ文学の古典．

Historia de un amor imposible, Las batallas en el desierto es un magistral audiolibro que involucra otros aspectos como la corrupción social y política, el inicio del Mexico moderno y la desaparición del país tradicional, y el rescate de las memorias individuales y colectivas de una ciudad a la que José Emilio Pacheco ama profundamente, pero recrea sin nostalgia y denuncia de manera implacable.

Ismael, un joven con experiencia en la marina mercante, decide que su siguiente viaje será en un ballenero. El joven entabla amistad con el arponero Queequeg, con quien se enrola en el Pequod, dirigido por el misterioso y autoritario capitán Ahab, un viejo lobo de mar con una pierna construida con la mandíbula de un cachalote.

You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours. But above the shop, where the family lives, life isn't so predictable. Toni Yagyuu, the middle child, has enough on her hands dealing with her budding diva of a little sister. But it is the men in her life that really have her running in circles

Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. Now Robert D. Richardson Jr. brings to life an Emerson very different from the old stereotype of the passionless Sage of Concord.

Kurt Vonnegut presents in Fates Worse than Death a veritable cornucopia of his thoughts on what could perhaps best be summed up as "anti-theology", a manifesto for atheism that details Vonnegut's drift from conventional religion, even a tract evidencing belief in the divine held within each individual self--the deity within each individual person present in a universe that otherwise lacks any real order.

Tres años después de jurar como presidente de Venezuela, Hugo Chávez es depuesto por un golpe militar, acusado de querer implantar una dictadura comunista. Tras arrestarlo y exigirle que firme una renuncia que Chávez se niega a convalidar, los espadones no saben qué hacer con el presidente derrocado ni tampoco quién debe asumir el mando en su lugar. Los generales venezolanos discuten si deben matar a Chávez acusándolo de traidor a la patria, o despacharlo en un vuelo a La Habana, o someterlo a un juicio sumario y encarcelarlo de por vida.

Sobre Heróis e Tumbas é um romance magistral em que se cruzam três fios narrativos: a paixão devastadora de Martín por Alejandra, o nascimento traumático de uma nação e a história da Seita Sagrada dos Cegos, casta maléfica de poderes esotéricos e milhões de súditos no mundo todo.

Una ciudad mítica, París. Un lugar mítico, el Grand Hotel Ritz. Un barman mítico, Frank Meier, el barman del Ritz. Todos habían degustado sus célebres cócteles: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, Mistinguett, Sacha Guitry, Jean Cocteau, Arletty. Pero en julio de 1940, las tropas alemanas ocupan París y sus responsables deciden hospedarse en el Ritz, como lo harán los jerarcas nazis como Göring y Goebbels cuando visiten la capital francesa.

Los Angeles, 1986. A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps - and it looks like it’s going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER. QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated in the bombing of an evangelical church that kills its pastor, Rios finds himself with a client suddenly facing the death penalty.

This book has no pretension about it whatever -- it is neither a Manual of Rhetoric, expatiating on the dogmas of style, nor a Grammar full of arbitrary rules and exceptions. It is merely an effort to help ordinary, everyday people to express themselves in ordinary, everyday language, in a proper manner.

This freewheeling black comedy features a bizarre cast of characters, including a Japanese man with a ball floating six inches in front of his head, an American CEO with three arms, and a Brazilian peasant who discovers the art of healing by tickling one’s earlobe with a feather. By the end of this hilarious tale, they each have risen to the heights of wealth and fame, before arriving at disasters—both personal and ecological— that destroy the rain forest and all birds of Brazil.

Kermit the Frog is back with a revised and updated edition of his bestselling memoir - the perfect gift for the new grad in your life! In Before You Leap, the world's most famous frog shares his own story in a funny, heartfelt manner about his life and yours. After telling the tale of his humble swamp beginnings, remarkable career in show business, and about all the amazing people and pigs he's met along the way, Kermit shares his advice on many of life's milestones, including: