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ケチで冷酷で人間嫌いのがりがり亡者スクルージ老人は、クリスマス・イブの夜、相棒だった老マーレイの亡霊と対面し、翌日からは彼の予言どおりに第一、第二、第三の幽霊に伴われて知人の家を訪問する。炉辺でクリスマスを祝う、貧しいけれど心暖かい人々や、自分の将来の姿を見せられて、さすがのスクルージも心を入れかえた……。

1926年に同人誌『青空』にて発表された耽美的名作。月光の下、影と自己との境目を見失った若者が遂げた生と死の物語。お手紙によりますと、あなたはK君の溺死について、それが過失だったろうか、自殺だったろうか、自殺ならば、それが何に原因しているのだろう、あるいは不治の病をはかなんで死んだのではなかろうかと様さまに思い悩んでいられるようであります。そしてわずか一ひと月ほどの間に、あの療養地のN海岸で偶然にも、K君と相識ったというような、一面識もない私にお手紙をくださるようになったのだと思います。私はあなたのお手紙ではじめてK君の彼地かのちでの溺死を知ったのです。私はたいそうおどろきました。と同時に「K君はとうとう月世界へ行った」と思ったのです。どうして私がそんな奇異なことを思ったか、それを私は今ここでお話しようと思っています。それはあるいはK君の死の謎を解く一つの鍵であるかも知れないと思うからです。

夏目漱石の作品の中から特に人気のある短編をまとめました。作品は「文鳥」「変な音」「カーライル博物館」「自転車日記」「琴のそら音」「趣味の遺伝」の６作品です。

To the Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful prose ever written, minutely detailing the characters thoughts and impressions. This unabridged version is read by Juliet Stevenson.

Golden Globe-winning actor Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) performs Truman Capote's masterstroke about a young writer's charmed fascination with his unorthodox neighbor, the "American geisha" Holly Golightly. Holly - a World War II-era society girl in her late teens - survives via socialization, attending parties and restaurants with men from the wealthy upper class who also provide her with money and expensive gifts. Over the course of the novella, the seemingly shallow Holly slowly opens up to the curious protagonist.

二人で語る、とは、、、、、セリフに込められた心の表現がより鮮やかに聞く人に届くように、男女二人の朗読者によって物語は語れていきます。

『蜘蛛の糸』は、1918年（大正7年）、児童向け文芸誌「赤い鳥」創刊号に発表された芥川龍之介の代表作。人間のエゴイズムを端的に表現した作品で、評価が高く、幅広い年代に読まれている。 芥川龍之介（あくたがわ　りゅうのすけ、東京生まれ、1892年 - 1927年）。作品の多くは短編小説であるが、『蜘蛛の糸』『杜子春』のような児童向けから『地獄変』のような古典を題材にした作品も数多く執筆した。

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success, but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had, by Fitzgerald's time, become increasingly focused on money and pleasure - a phenomenon with which the high-living writer was all too familiar.

＜内容紹介＞ 山本周五郎は「文学には“純”も“不純…

Ulysses is regarded by many as the single most important novel of the 20th century. It tells the story of one day in Dublin, June 16th 1904, largely through the eyes of Stephen Dedalus (Joyce's alter ego from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) and Leopold Bloom, an advertising salesman. Both begin a normal day, and both set off on a journey around the streets of Dublin, which eventually brings them into contact with one another.

チェコ出身のドイツ語作家であり、20世紀文学を代表するユダヤ人小説家フランツ・カフカの代表作として知られる中編小説。ＤＩＥ　ＶＥＲＷＡＮＤＬＵＮＧからの原田義人による翻訳。1915年発表。

War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy's finest achievment, chronicles the history of the French invasion of Russia and the impact of the Napoleonic era on Tsarist society through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families.

毎回、様々なジャンルから話題の書籍を１冊ピックアップし、その書籍の書評を本好きの２人、羊文学のギターヴォーカル・塩塚 モエカ、本好きモデル・小谷実由が紹介。

日本近現代の名作小説や詩を、朗読用に書き下ろされたオリジナルあらすじ台本で味わうシリーズ。

「とにかくヘンな小説をお願いします」そんな型破りな依頼に応えるべく、炒めて煮込んで未知の旨味を引き出した傑作集。

The Bradford-Shmulkin family is falling apart. A very modern blend of Russian, Jewish, Korean, and New England WASP, they love each other deeply but the pressures of life in an unstable America are fraying their bonds.

America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states—locked in a cold war—lies a neutral buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War Two was won by the Allies . . .

Pride and Prejudice unfolds the timeless tale of spirited Elizabeth Bennet and the brooding Mr. Darcy, set against the elegant backdrop of Regency-era England. This classic Jane Austen novel weaves sharp social commentary with an enduring romance that has captivated readers for over two centuries.

As a prospective barrister, Zaid Saban is on the cusp of achieving everything he has dreamed of. His social and professional world is far removed from his schoolyard days in the suburbs of western Sydney, even more far removed from the traumatic events of his final year of school in which best friend, Hass, was arrested for murder. Zaid thinks he has put all this behind him. But when Hass’s sister, Amira, finds him and asks him to read her brother’s diary, Zaid is pulled back to the very world he had left behind. Is it possible that Hass was innocent?

In 1978, two tenements on Livonia Avenue in Brownsville burn to the ground, killing one resident and displacing dozens of others. It remains unclear who set the buildings ablaze, but the survivors are convinced the culprit is Mr. Wong. Who exactly is Mr. Wong, and what allegedly drove him to this extraordinary act of violence, is the question that consumes this novel as it plunges into four generations of Wong family history.

名プロデューサー・菊池寛時代が求めた男・菊池寛！話題の書籍、待望の文庫化決定！！大ベストセラー作家にして、稀代のプロデューサーだった男はいかにして時代を読み、大衆に愛されたのか？

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。

Lent against a lamppost in the black of night as freezing cold rain lashes down from above. He wants to reach the sanctuary of the bar on the other side of the road, but the night and the cold rain and the lack of light make it seem a wide reaching roadway that perhaps is too far for him to stumbling across. Join our protagonist striving to make his way out of the driving rain to the bar that teases just out of reach and leads us to distraction, as haunting lights bedazzle and amaze the eye once we're lost in the abyss of night's darkness.

The Michaelmas Daisy: a contemporary story of loneliness, loyalty, love, finding new friends, and hope. Beverley may be dead, but that doesn’t make it any easier to let go. She watches over her husband and daughter, sharing their pain, laughter, fears and dreams. As she watches, memories of her own life and love for her husband bring comfort and tears in equal measure. Her daughter, Philippa (58, divorced), looks after her ailing father. She does so willingly, but caring for him 24/7 takes great patience and compassion, and such devotion is isolating.

This prizewinning novel weaves together four animal odysseys in a poignant meditation on migration, displacement, and the inextricable human and natural worlds. In Only a Little While Here, award-winning author María Ospina evokes a sensation birders know well—the gratification to be had through close, humble observation of nature.

In this charming patchwork of fever dreams and memories, Pirkko Saisio transports us to the 1950s Finland of her youth, where she navigates life as an only child of communist parents. Convinced she will grow up to become a man, a young Pirkko keeps trying and failing to meet the expectations of the adults around her. But as she discovers that she can be the narrator of her own story, it is in language that she finds a refuge and a way to be seen at last.

Quand on a vingt ans et des poussières, comment concilier l'amour fou, l'impasse des rêves et les conséquences d'un meurtre ? Du grand Cauwelaert : retour sur l'itinéraire d'un écrivain pas comme les autres.

La guerra infuria a pochi chilometri dalla Linea Gotica, sulle colline di Pesaro, dove tedeschi e fascisti si scontrano con i partigiani del Toscano in attesa delle truppe alleate. Evelina ha solo cinque anni quando i primi rifugiati trovano riparo nel granaio di suo padre, quell'attimo in cui la sua vita viene travolta e la spensieratezza dei giochi d'infanzia lascia il posto all'orrore della guerra. Realtà e magia si mescolano e si intrecciano, riportando in vita un mondo contadino e fiabesco, l'intrico della guerra civile e quella mondiale.

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.

イギリスの小説家、メアリー・シェリーが匿名で発表した作品。科学者を目指す少年、ヴィクター・フランケンシュタインが主人公で、死んだ人間に生命を吹き込む実験を試みる。