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.

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.

This novel spans the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I. With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.

謎につつまれた人物パーマー・エルドリッチが宇宙から持ち帰ったドラッグは、苦悶に喘ぐ人々に不死と安寧をもたらした。

〔ジョン・Ｗ・キャンベル記念賞受賞〕三千万の視聴者から愛されるマルチタレントのタヴァナーは、ある朝安ホテルで目覚めた。

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.

謎の組織によって供給されるその金属の黒い箱は、別の場所の別人の思考へと繋がる道だった……。

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.

There is now no doubt that not only is Waiting for Godot the outstanding play of the 20th century, but it is also Samuel Beckett's masterpiece. Yet it is both a popular text to be studied at school and an enigma. The scene is a country road. There is a solitary tree. It is evening. Two tramp-like figures, Vladimir and Estragon, exchange words. Pull off boots. Munch a root vegetable. Two other curious characters enter. And a boy. Time passes. It is all strange yet familiar.

〔ヒューゴー賞受賞〕第二次世界大戦が枢軸国側の勝利に終わってから十五年、世界はいまだに日独二国の支配下にあった。

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。

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山本周五郎は「文学には“純”も“不純”もなく、“大衆”も“少数”もない。ただ“よい小説”と“わるい小説”があるばかりだ」を信念とし、普遍妥当性をもつ人間像の造形を生涯の目的とした作家で、時代小説を中心に沢山の作品を残しています。 　その作風は今なお古臭さを感じさせず、繊細に描かれた人の心の機微や人情に、思わず笑わされたり、胸を打たれたりする魅力に溢れています。 ＜あらすじ＞ 江戸の町で、経師屋に勤めるさぶと栄二。一人では何も出来ないが、底抜けに人の良いさぶと、仕事の筋はよいが向こうっ気の強い栄二は、いつか二人で店を持とうと互いを励まし合い、仕事に励んでいた。 　ところがある日のこと、得意先で高価な「金襴の切」が見あたらなくなるという事件が起こる。ちょうど仕事で通っていた二人の道具袋を念のために旦那が探してみたところ、栄二の道具袋から「金襴の切」が見つかった。 身に覚えのない疑いをかけられた栄二は、10年も勤めた経師屋の主人が自分を信じてくれず、辞めさせられたことに納得がいかず、得意先の旦那に直談判に出向くがたたき出されてしまう。事情を聞いてくれた与力にも反発する栄二だったが、扱いに困った奉行所は、とうとう栄二を石川島の「人足寄場」へ送ってしまったのであった…… ＜山本周五郎＞ 1903～67年。小説家。山梨の生まれ。本名・清水三十六(さとむ)。名は生まれ年からつけられ、筆名は東

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.