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2011年6月出版、新訳で生まれ変わった角川つばさ文庫版「星の王子さま」。 サハラ砂漠のまんなかで乗っていた飛行機がこわれてしまったぼく。 人の住む場所から遠くはなれた砂漠で、ぼくは小さな声を聞き目をさました。 ふしぎなことに、そこには変わったおちびちゃんがいてぼくをじっと見つめていたのだ。 児童書の名作を、管 啓次郎の斬新な訳と髙橋大輔さんの温かく優しい声でお届けします。

【第172回芥川賞受賞作】高明なゲーテ学者、博把統一は、一家団欒のディナーで、彼の知らないゲーテの名言と出会う。ティー・バッグのタグに書かれたその言葉を求めて、膨大な原典を読み漁り、長年の研究生活の記憶を辿るが……。

小学生のとき、担任の先生と町の外からやって来た男が駆け落ちしたのを忘れられない主婦。東京でバツイチ子持ちの恋人との関係に寂しさを覚える看護師。認知症の義母に夫とのセックスレスの悩みを打ち明ける管理栄養士。

恋と仕事を同時に失い深く傷ついた美菜代は、自分を裏切った元彼への復讐を心に誓い、凄腕だと噂される復讐屋・成海慶介の事務所を訪れる。しかし、セレブからのみの依頼を受ける成海には復讐の代行を断られてしまう。

井上円了。江戸から大正までを生きた、仏教哲学者、教育家として名を残す。 迷信を打破する立場から妖怪を研究した。 妖怪を、オカルティズムを廃した、科学的見地で把握するために、研究したそうだが、じつは単に好きだったんでしょうと感じられる本書。すばらしい熱意。 むちゃくちゃにオモシロイのだが、明治の論文語体で読みづらいので、原文に忠実に、ナレーターの表現を極力抑えて仕上げたこのオーディオブックでお楽しみください。 ただし、妖怪大好きなお子さんと一緒に聞くのは、まだ妖怪を否定しているだけに思えるかもしれないので、ご注意ください。

鬼が哭(な)く夜は死人が出る――まさか、令和になってまで終戦直後、中国地方の寒村で起きた惨殺事件。姿を消した犯人の呪いにより、今も犠牲者が出ているというが……。驚愕の呪いの真相とは!?

清河八郎「夫れ非常の変に処する者は、必らず非常の士を用ふ――」　肥後守容保「純一むくにこれに終始せんとした珍しく生一本な政治家だった――」　　芹沢鴨「芹沢派はいよいよただの乱暴者に還ってしまった――」　近藤勇「近代的資格をほとんどまるで具えていないところの農村富農――」

「めぐみ食堂」で見習い修業！？　小料理屋の女将を志す女性が恵の弟子となるが……。小料理屋を開店したいという夢を抱く桂日向は、真行寺の紹介で、元占い師の女将・恵に弟子入りし、「めぐみ食堂」で修業をすることに。

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse - mathematical genius and young Captain in the US Navy - is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Watrehouse and Detachment 2702 - commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe - is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. In the present, Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia....

Before marrying, Emma Bovary believed she would enter a life of luxury and passion like the sentimental stories she'd read in her novels and magazines. Now married to an ordinary country doctor her life is not the romantic ideal she imagined and seeks an escape through having extra-marital affairs. This devastating spiral into deceit and despair leads to catastrophic consequences. Emma Bovary continues to be enjoyed to this day because of its profound humanity, still as fresh today as when it was first written.

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.

In this Audible Exclusive performance by Matt Lucas of Great Expectations, Charles Dickens demonstrates that conscience, loyalty and empathy are virtues far more valuable than intellect, wealth and social standing. First published in Dickens’ own periodical, All the Year Round, the novel was divided into nine monthly instalments, from December 1860 to August 1861. Unsurprisingly, it was an instant success and managed to sell over 100,000 copies per week. Though written at a challenging time in Dickens’ life, when the impending breakdown of his marriage loomed over him, Great Expectations proves to be one of his most optimistic, comical and romantic novels.

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.

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card."

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.

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.

「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。

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.

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.

In the secluded Dutch territory of Sleepy Hollow, nebbish schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes with the town hero for the hand of Katrina Van Tassel, the 18-year-old daughter and sole child of a wealthy farmer. As Crane leaves a party at the Van Tassel's farm one autumn evening, he is pursued by the Headless Horseman, an apparition said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper snuffed out by a stray cannonball.