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The best way to experience this classic of the American South is by joining five-time Academy Award nominee and Best Actress winner Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking, Thelma & Louise) as she guides the listener on a journey through the anguish of adolescence and isolation.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. While his betrayal of family, duty and honour gives him the freedom to achieve greatness, his decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.

Academy Award winner Dustin Hoffman gives an understated and exemplary performance of this satiric look at the unreality of American media culture. Chance, the enigmatic gardener, becomes Chauncey Gardiner after getting hit by a limo belonging to a Wall Street tycoon. The whirlwind that follows brings Chance to his new status of political policy advisor and possible vice presidential candidate. His garden-variety political responses, inspired by television, become heralded as visionary, and he is soon a media icon.

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.' So says Thomas Gradgrind, a wealthy, utilitarian school board superintendent. Father to Tom and Louisa, he shapes the minds of all the young children, including his own, with the exception of only one: the circus-born Sissy Jupe.

とある理由で両腕を切断してしまう軍人の元へ慰問に訪れた芸者。「自分の両腕を切ってしまう前に一度でいい、生れて初めて、そして最後にこの手で女の人の手にさわって見たい」と言われ…。第11回直木賞受賞作品。

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.

Prize-winning biographer William Dubin learns from lives, or thinks he does - those he writes, those he shares, the life he lives. Now in his later middle age, he seeks his own secret self, and the obsession of biography is supplanted by the obsession of love - love for a woman half is age, who has sought an understanding of her life through his books. Dubin's Lives is a rich, subtle book, as well as a moving tale of love and marriage.

Into the rarefied atmosphere of the Hotel du Lac timidly walks Edith Hope, romantic novelist and holder of modest dreams. Edith has been exiled from home after embarrassing herself and her friends. She has refused to sacrifice her ideals and remains stubbornly single. But among the pampered women and minor nobility Edith finds Mr Neville and her chance to escape from a life of humiliating spinsterhood is renewed...

四ツ角高校三年二組で一番美しく人気もあった生徒・更紗が突如自殺する。遺書もなくいじめがあったわけでもない。しかし彼女の死をきっかけに次々に女生徒が見えない力によって容姿を傷付けられていく。

Graham Greene’s evocative analysis of the love of self, the love of another, and the love of God is an English classic that has been translated for the stage, the screen, and even the opera house. Academy Award-winning actor Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man) turns in an authentic and stirring performance for this distinguished audio release.

日銀、東京駅…近代日本を建てた男の一代記！日本銀行本店や東京駅など、近代日本を象徴する建物を矢継ぎ早に設計した、明治を代表する建築家・辰野金吾。

「寛容」は、英領下にあるインド人が、自らの日本観を新たにする経緯を書く。インド独立を夢見るドミイは、日本で商い、家庭を構え、根付きながらも「笑ふ人種」の日本人を軽んじている。「不良英人」として国外退去処分になっても、さしたるショックはなかった。 しかし、日中戦争の勃発を機にドミイは、日本人がいざとなればひどく勇猛であること、自分の侮ってきた日本人の甘さが、実は日本の「寛容」であったことを知る。 表紙絵の人物はおそらくドミイなのだろう。当時イメージされた「南」の人の典型的な表象だ。ドミイは初め着物を嫌っていた。しかし「日本が恋しくて堪らな」くなった彼は、身の丈に合わない着物をまとい、日の丸を手にする。

不思議な猫に連れられてたどり着いたのは、美しい洋館〈楡屋敷〉だった。あることで声を失い、療養を兼ねて下宿生活を始めた瑛麻。一階の〈書林コマドリ〉でアルバイトをしながら、本好きの下宿仲間と二階で暮らす生活は思いもよらない出来事ばかり。

「東京に逃げることにしたの」。高校を卒業してまもなく、同級生だった順子から清美に連絡が入る。二十も年上の男と駆け落ちするという。

Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, Reflections in a Golden Eye tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter.

Auf einer Schiffsreise von New York nach Buenos Aires kommt der Ich-Erzähler dem arroganten Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic erst nahe, als sich dieser bereit erklärt, gegen alle Hobbyspieler gemeinsam eine Partie zu spielen. Als diese schon verloren scheint, greift ein Dr. B. in das Spiel ein und holt gegen Czentovic noch ein Remis heraus. Durch Dr. B.s seltsames Spielfieber neugierig gemacht, will der Ich-Erzähler mehr von ihm erfahren. Daraufhin berichtet ihm Dr. B. von seiner monatelangen Einzelhaft im Wiener Gestapo-Gefängnis, wo er dem Irrewerden nur dadurch entkam, dass er aus einem entwendeten Schachbuch Meisterpartien nachspielte.

会社役員刺殺事件を追う姫川玲子に、ガンテツこと勝俣警部補が15年前の事件を語り始める。刺された会社役員は薬害を蔓延させた元厚生官僚で、その息子もかつて殺害されていたというのだ。

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.

Oe's most important novel, A Personal Matter, has been called by The New York Times "close to a perfect novel". In A Personal Matter, Oe has chosen a difficult, complex though universal subject: how does one face and react to the birth of an abnormal child?