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Ernest Hemingway said, “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn". One hundred years after its author’s death, this classic remains remarkably modern and poignantly relevant. In this new edition, Elijah Wood reads Huck in a youthful voice that may be the closest interpretation to Twain’s original intent. His performance captures the excitement and confusion of adolescence and adventure.

百人を超える死者を出した列車事故。原因は、踏切内に進入した飲酒運転の車だった。危険運転致死傷罪はまだなく、運転していた男の刑期はたったの五年。目の前で死んでいった顔見知りの女子高生、失った自分の右腕。元駅員は復讐を心に誓うが……（表題作）。

母親の入院を機に長野西宮高校に転入した神代江姫は戦慄した。そこは何百年に亘って怨霊が蠢く土地だったのだ。自分以外が鎮魂の神楽を舞えば演者は必ず死ぬと予言された彼女は、文化祭恒例の神楽を舞う羽目に。

Jay is leaving his partner and their two sons. As the long night before his departure unfolds, he remembers the ups and downs of his relationship with Susan. In an unforgettable and often pitiless reflection of their time together, he analyses the agonies and the joys of trying to make a life with another person.

ひとりは令嬢、一人は孤児として育った。戦後御殿場を舞台に始まる　双子姉妹のアンティークミステリー開幕。昭和30年。東京の養育院で暮らす16歳の小百合は呆然とした。

Recipient of the 1966 Tanizaki Prize, it has been called Endo's supreme achievement" and "one of the twentieth century's finest novels". Considered controversial ever since its first publication, it tackles the thorniest religious issues of belief and faith head on. A novel of historical fiction, it is the story of a Jesuit missionary sent to seventeenth century Japan, who endured persecution that followed the defeat of the Shimabara Rebellion.

1934年上海。「魔都」と呼ばれるほど繁栄と悪徳を誇るこの地に成功を夢見て渡ってきた日本人の青年・吾郷次郎。租界で商売をする彼のもとへ、原田ユキヱという謎めいた女から極上の阿片と芥子の種が持ち込まれる。

This quintessential coming-of-age novel describes the early life of Stephen Dedalus. It is set in Ireland during the 19th century, which was a time of emerging Irish nationalism and conservative Catholicism. Highly autobiographical in nature, the work is also notable for its being the first one in which Joyce uses innovative “stream of consciousness” writing style. A Portrait... follows Stephen Dedalus from his babyhood into early adulthood.

This is the story of Kitty Fane, the adulterous wife of a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. When her husband discovers her deception, he exacts a terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic in China.

Set on Egdon Heath, a fictional barren moor in Wessex, Eustacia Vye longs for the excitement of city life but is cut off from the world in her grandfather's lonely cottage. Clym Yeobright who has returned to the area to become a schoolmaster seems to offer everything she dreams of: passion, excitement and the opportunity to escape. However, Clym's ambitions are quite different, and marriage only increases Eustacia's destructive restlessness, drawing others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.

An Oprah's Book Club Selection regarded as one of Faulkner's greatest and most accessible novels, Light in August is a timeless and riveting story of determination, tragedy, and hope. In Faulkner's iconic Yoknapatawpha County, race, sex, and religion collide around three memorable characters searching desperately for human connection and their own identities.

Form-defining short stories. First published in 1914, James Joyce defined what the short story could be with his collection The Dubliners. A mixture of prose and poetry, each story can be listened to independently, or as a collection. From childhood to maturity, we see what life - and ultimately death - can be, via an extraordinary cast of characters, all of whom experience an epiphany. There’s Father Flynn, the priest; Evelyn, the shop girl who dreams of escape; Mrs Mooney, the butcher’s daughter, who runs a boarding house.

作家本人と思しき女性が、オーロラ見物と白夜体験のため、真冬と初夏の二度、アラスカを訪ねる、という筋立ての短篇。二月はマイナス30℃近く、ブリザード（猛吹雪）が来れば、遭難しかねず、反対に30℃近くに達する夏は一転、植物の色彩で溢れるが、油断をすると凍土に足をとられ、身動きできなくなる。そんな極地で、作家は「ウルフトラッパー」を名乗る日本人男性と出会う。
「ウルフトラッパー」は、先住民の中でも特に狩に秀でたアサバスカ族から送られた尊称で、狼を銃で撃つのではなく、罠、つまり知恵で捕らえる賢者を指す。年齢不詳、一人でテント生活をしているらしい男に、作家は徐々に親しみを覚えてゆく。謎めいた男が明かす極地の真実、また“五感の訓練”とは？　フィクションの愉楽に満ちた逸品。

戦後80年、広島生まれ育ちの著者が、いま戦争を描く。「ぼくのおじいちゃんは戦争で兵隊になって南方に行きました。」

Mina Simpson, a Lebanese doctor, arrives at the infamous Moria refugee camp on Lesbos, Greece, after being urgently summoned for help by her friend who runs an NGO there. Alienated from her family except for her beloved brother, Mina has avoided being so close to her homeland for decades. But with a week off work and apart from her wife of 30 years, Mina hopes to accomplish something meaningful, among the abundance of Western volunteers who pose for selfies with beached dinghies and the camp's children.

作家を思わせる語り手の女性が、人生の折々に鮮烈に現われたトマトとの関わりを追想する、という趣向の短編。幼い頃、科学者だった父親と二人で出かけた地元近くの海水浴場に浮かんでいたトマト。「おばあちゃん」になった今では、猛暑のなか、孫が止めるのにも耳を貸さず、アーチ状の「トマトの林」を丹精込めて育てている。こうしたトマトはいったいどこからやってきたのか？
語り手にとってトマトは、男たちとの交際の記憶を幼時に齧った折の青ぐささと共に甦らせる不思議な存在だ。学生時代、初めてキスし、交わった男は農業大学の研究生。アステカ族が住む地域でトマトの原種を育成研究するため、「私」のもとを去り、メキシコへ渡った。一個のトマトをベッドに残して……。
南米アンデス山脈原産のトマトは、大航海時代にイタリア半島にもたらされたが、毒性が恐れられ、当初は観賞用だったとされる。「黄金の果実」を巡って、作家の奇想が冴えわたる作品。

Emma can be enjoyed as a charming love story, a detective story, and a comic and lively picture of English life 200 years ago. Austen's beautiful, clever, wilful but fallible heroine Emma Woodhouse believes she knows best. Perfectly content with her life she sees no need for either love or marriage, yet nothing pleases her more than meddling in the romantic lives of others.

Capote's previously lost and unpublished tale "Yachts and Things" was recently discovered by Vanity Fair contributing editor Sam Kasher in the Manuscripts and Archives Division of the New York Public Library. Written at the height of his career and socialite life, this short, thinly-veiled work of fiction tells the story of two friends about to take an "idyllic three-week cruise in the Mediterranean aboard a friend's chartered yacht".

Alicia en el País de las Maravillas, con sus personajes entrañables y situaciones fantásticas, es un clásico de la literatura universal. Siguiendo a un apurado conejo, Alicia cae en un agujero y llega a un mundo en el que reinan lo irracional y el absurdo. Luego de una serie de disparatadas aventuras en ese extraño lugar, Alicia logra vencer sus miedos y regresar a la realidad.

昭和37年、墨田区本所。東京大空襲で焼け落ちた秋山善吉工務店に、両親を亡くした善吉が棟梁となって帰ってきた。高度経済成長の建築ブームのなか、下町で起こる様々な問題に、大工の善吉が体当たりで挑む！