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内容紹介。魯迅の長編小説。阿Qという愚かでうぬぼれの強い最下層の人間を主人公として描き、国民へ無知・無自覚であることへの危機を訴えた作品である。

『幸福の王子』は、1888年に発表された作品、王子の像と１羽のツバメの献身的な愛、哀しくも心温まるオスカー・ワイルドの代表的童話。
今でも世界中の子どもたちに感動を与えている名作ですが、大人になって改めて読むと新たな感動と発見に満ち溢れた作品です。
オスカー・ワイルド（1854年 - 1900年）は、アイルランド・ダブリン生まれの詩人、作家、劇作家。童話『ナイチンゲールとバラ』『わがままな大男』や、長編小説『ドリアングレイの肖像』などの長編小説、又劇作家としても詩劇『サロメ』など数多くの作品を執筆した。

For years, rumors of the 'Marsh Girl' have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved.

世界最高峰のミステリー文学賞　英国推理作家協会賞　ダガー賞　翻訳小説部門受賞作。世界が息を呑んだ最狂のシスター・バイオレンス・アクション！

When the Kitchen God is challenged by the Jade Emperor to fathom the workings of the human heart, he chooses to trace the lives of Jinyi and his wife, Yuying, from their blossoming love until their old age, in hope of finding an answer. The Kitchen God watches as government strictures split their family in two, living inside their hearts as they endure the losses of two children, homesickness, and isolation—all while keeping alive a love that survives famine, forced labor, and even death.

Quando un docente disarmato incontra un alunno con la pistola il docente disarmato è un uomo morto. Tratto dal volume "La buona scuola" di Valerio Di Stefano

Quando un docente disarmato incontra un alunno con la pistola il docente disarmato è un uomo morto. Tratto dal volume "La buona scuola" di Valerio Di Stefano

An intimate fictionalization, Autobiography of Cotton reveals a rich social history of agricultural colonization, labor activism, environmental degradation, and cross-border migration.

Sofie Muller can make you into a better writer. That's why Alice and Walt are desperate to be in her creative writing class. Alice wants it. She wants Sofie's hand guiding hers to greatness, then the book deal, then the prizes and the plaudits. Still, there is gossip. Sofie will kill your darlings. Sofie will drive you too hard. Sofie's boundary-pushing is not just professional, it is personal. By the time Alice realizes the rumors may be true, is it too late to wriggle free? And if not, is it worth it to get what she always dreamed of?

In the 11th century, a feral child is taken in by three witches after the wolves who raised her are slaughtered by hunters. Three hundred years later, gentle, observant Brother Rowan is supposed to be making copies of historical fragments. In truth, he spends most of his time in the garden of his priory in the Scottish Lowlands. He hasn't fully recovered from the Great Plague, which killed most of the other monks. But the Benedictine order wants to send him north in search of an ancient library and the true history of Scotland's kings.

Not for the first time, Jill "Doll" Blaine finds herself hurtling toward earth, reconstituting as she falls, right down to her favorite black pumps. She plummets towards her newest charge, yet another soul she must usher into the afterlife, and lands headfirst in the circular drive of his ornate mansion. She has performed this sacred duty three hundred and forty-three times since her own death. Her charges, as a rule, have been greatly comforted in their final moments.

Spring 1942, the time of the golden midnight sun. When Ingá, her mother Ravdná and aunt Ánne return to the summer settlement, they are horrified to discover that their village has been drowned, leaving the shore, their goahtis huts and the beautiful birch forest submerged beneath a strange underwater landscape. Without any notice to the community, the Company has dammed the lake for hydropower. Modern society is creeping closer with its demand for electricity and comfort, and with little consideration for its impact on the natural world or on those who have inhabited it for centuries.

On this stiflingly hot summer day, Stephen has decided it's time to break up with his girlfriend Fiona. As he makes his way through the pitiless city and the hours of a single day, Stephen must fend off his demanding family, endure another shift of his dead-end job at the zoo (and an excruciating workplace team-building event), face up to Fiona's aggressive ex-husband and the hysteria of a children's birthday party that goes terribly wrong.

Every night, Kawashima Masayuki creeps from his bed and watches over his baby girl's crib while his wife sleeps. Deciding to confront his demons, Kawashima sets into motion a chain of events seeming to lead inexorably to murder.

Bartleby ist ein Schreibgehilfe, ein Anwaltskopist. Zunächst glänzt der neue Gehilfe bei der Arbeit und bewältigt ein gewaltiges Arbeitspensum. Bald jedoch beginnt Bartlebys Eifer nachzulassen; immer öfter begegnet er Aufforderungen zur Arbeit mit einem schlichten "Ich möchte lieber nicht". Der Erzähler ist ratlos. Was soll er tun? Bartleby entlassen möchte er nicht.

圧倒的「数覚」に恵まれた瞭司の死後、熊沢はその遺書といえる研究ノートを入手するが――冲方丁、辻村深月、森見登美彦絶賛！選考委員の圧倒的評価を勝ち取った、第9回野性時代フロンティア文学賞受賞作！※再生時間はあくまで目安です。

Faussone, detto Tino, il protagonista di questa «opera prima» di Primo Levi, ovvero del suo primo romanzo d'invenzione, è un operaio specializzato che si lascia alle spalle la dura esperienza della catena di montaggio alla Lancia e gira per il mondo a montare gru, ponti sospesi, strutture metalliche, impianti petroliferi.

RINAによる「桃太郎」朗読です

『猿の手』は、1902年に「遊覧船の貴婦人」に発表された作品。
古い友人から譲り受けた干乾びた『猿の手』。魔力により願い事を３つ叶えてくれると言うのだが、古くから童話等で使われる3つの願い事をテーマにじわじわと迫り来る恐怖を描いたゴシックホラーの名作短編。
ウィリアム・ワイマーク・ジェイコブズ（1863 - 1943）イギリス・ロンドン生まれの小説家、劇作家。他にも「徴税所」「人殺し」等の恐怖小説が有名、江戸川乱歩が海外の怪奇小説をまとめたアンソロジー「怪談入門」にもこの『猿の手』が選ばれている。

阿Qは無知で短慮ゆえに村人から笑いものにされ、 死んでまで周囲の人から不満を言われる切ない最期を迎える。 中国の田舎村のある男の伝記を通して、当時の庶民の様子を描き出す、 魯迅の唯一の長編小説