Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic.

Narrated by Mike Vendetti and Kathy Verduin, Cat in the Rain is not just about a cat. The cat can be taken at face value and surface-level as "just" a cat, and the events of the story as being a minor snapshot into one hour's events in the lives of an American couple living in 1920s Italy. But since when in our own lives do events simply happen without having wider implications? Many things we do are motivated by other desires, drives, wants, fears, and anxieties.

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

火星への最初の探検隊は一人も帰還しなかった。火星人が探検隊を、彼らなりのやりかたでもてなしたからだ。つづく二度の探検隊も同じ運命をたどる。それでも人類は怒涛のように火星へと押し寄せた。

★TVで話題沸騰! 「3語の英語」
★日本テレビ系「世界一受けたい授業」に著者出演! (2017/2/25)

「短い」英語が知的でスマート!

At the age of 12, Joel Knox is summoned to meet the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at the decaying mansion in Skully's Landing, his father is nowhere in sight. What he finds instead is a sullen stepmother who delights in killing birds; an uncle with the face - and heart - of a debauched child; and a fearsome little girl named Idabel who may offer him the closest thing he has ever known to love.

大ヒットのキクタン英会話【基礎編】からレベルUP!【基礎編】の1000語レベル（＝中学英語レベル）の語彙制限を外し、本当に使える160フレーズを選びました。「入れ替えフレーズ」も増えて、表現豊かな英語が話せるようになります。 ●語彙レベル1000語の限定解除。もっと使える160フレーズを厳選：中学英語レベルの単語、1000語を組み合わせたフレーズに限定した【基礎編】に対し、【初級編】では語彙レベルに関係なく、本当に使えるフレーズ160を厳選。SVL（標準語彙水準）2000語レベルのExcellent!（素晴らしい！）や、4000語レベルのAbsolutely.（もちろん！）など、語彙レベルは高いものの、英語のネイティブがよく使うフレーズを選びました。 ●「入れ替えフレーズバリエーション」拡大で表現力UP!：Aren't you + hungry?（おなかすいていないの？）⇒Aren't you + glad?（うれしくないの？）など、基本となる部分（この場合はAren't you ～...

The Unnamable is the third novel in Beckett's trilogy, three remarkable prose works in which men of increasingly debilitating physical circumstances act, ponder, consider and rage against impermanence and the human condition. The Unnamable is without doubt the most uncompromising text and it is read here in startling fashion by Sean Barrett.

英語の達人をめざすなら、類義語との違い、構文や文脈、共起語などの知識に支えられた高い語彙力が不可欠だ。記憶や学習のしくみを考えれば、多読や多聴は語彙力向上には向かない。