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A Study in Scarlet was the very first Sherlock Holmes novel. Here, in the most remarkably precise manner, Doyle produced two of the most well-known characters in English fiction. Their individual traits and their relationships, their ambitions and foibles are introduced against the backdrop of an exciting story of revenge and persistence, which starts in Victorian England but moves to the American West, and the environment of the early Mormon communities.

Jules Verne's incomparable Phileas Fogg races against time to win a sizeable wager. One adventure follows another in this memorable story rife with humor and strange encounters.

David, a young American in 1950s Paris, is waiting for his fiancée to return from vacation in Spain. But when he meets Giovanni, a handsome Italian barman, the two men are drawn into an intense affair. After three months David's fiancée returns and, denying his sexuality, he rejects Giovanni for a 'safe' future as a married man — a decision that will bring tragedy, longing and regret.

In a gloomy, neglected house Miss Havisham sits, as she has sat year after year, in a wedding dress and veil that were once white, and are now faded and yellow with age. Her face is like a death’s head; her dark eyes burn with bitterness and hate. By her side sits a proud and beautiful girl, and in front of her, trembling with fear in his thick country boots, stands young Pip.

一个恃才傲物狂放不羁，一个聪颖美丽却心存偏见，千回百转，历经种种心灵涤荡，爱情——终如芙蓉般在清澈的湖水中，静静地含露绽放。 …… 一個恃才傲物狂放不羈，一個聰穎美麗卻心存偏見，千回百轉，歷經種種心靈滌蕩，愛情——終如芙蓉般在清澈的湖水中，靜靜地含露綻放。

Publié en 1830, "Le rouge et le noir" est un monument de la littérature française. Roman réaliste où l'ambition côtoie la cruauté d'une jeunesse inconsciente. Julien Sorel, fil de charpentier, veut gravir les échelon de la société,pour cela deux carrières s'offrent à lui : le clergé ou le militaire ; c'est finalement par les femmes que Julien parviendra à ses fins.

A top notch retelling of Lewis Carroll's classic. Alice falls down the rabbit hole and wanders through a bizarre procession of memorable characters who have become figures of speech in English speaking culture ever since.

Meet the Mock Turtle, the hookah smoking Caterpillar, the murderous Queen of Hearts, the anarchic cook with her pepper pot, the baby that turns into a pig, not to mention the grinning Cheshire Cat and the forgetful White Rabbit.

David Timson talks about Charles Dickens, much loved for his great contribution to classic English Literature.

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＞
お秋は村次とは腐れ縁だった。十八の頃に出会ってからはや九年、仕事がものになれば、お秋を苦界の商売から足を洗わせてやる……何度もそう言われ続け、お秋は彼との縁を切れずにいた。その一方で船宿の船頭である藤吉には強く思いを寄せられ、一緒になろうと迫られていたが、村次のこともあり、お秋は断り続けていた。
　ある日、店にはおせんという十七の娘がやって来た。借金を抜いて一人が店を出ることになった代わりだった。お秋は世話をしてやり、おせんを気に掛けるが、一方のおせんはなかなかお秋に懐こうとしなかった。
そしてある日、村次が「商売がうまく行かなかった」と、お秋に鞍替えの話を持って来た時、女主人はお秋に対して、おせんの身の上を話すのだった。それはお秋が思ってもみない残酷な真実だった……

＜山本周五郎＞
1903～67年。小説家。山梨

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's greatest works: six novels, three books of non-fiction, a collection of his most well-renowned essays and the complete collection of his poetry.

Todos los cuentos de Borges reunidos en un audiolibro

Poeta, ensayista y narrador, Borges es una de las figuras primordiales de la literatura universal. Ahora se reúnen en este audiolibro todos sus cuentos, uno de los legados más influyentes y deslumbrantes de la literatura occidental.

Listen to hilarious unabridged stories starring the ever popular Jeeves and Wooster from the master of great British comedy: P. G. Wodehouse. Stories featured: 'Jeeves Takes Charge 'Jeeves and The Unbidden Guest', 'The Artistic Career of Corky', 'The Aunt and the Sluggard', 'Clustering Round Young Bingo', 'Jeeves and the Hard-boiled Egg' and 'The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy'

Written in 1593, King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's earliest plays. This play differs from its predecessors, being amore structured piece, examining the development and motivations of a single character, Richard Duke of Gloucester, who will stop at nothing to gain control of the throne occupied by his brother Edward IV.

To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramseys and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman ( Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life.

When peddler John Durbeyfield learns that he may be a descendant of a noble family, he sends his oldest child, Tess, to “claim kin.” Blindly ushered into harm’s way, the strong-willed yet untinctured peasant girl is not prepared for the blighted course her life will take. Nor for those whose destructive desires will determine her fate, and force Tess to make only the most desperate of choices. From her tragic loss of innocence through betrayal and revenge, Tess’s struggle for survival challenged the era’s mores and the cruel indifference shown women in Victorian society.

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『宮本武蔵』を生んだ“国民文学作家”が描く女の人生
源義経、楠木正成、豊臣秀吉らの偉業には内助の功があった――

男たちを陰ながら支えた女たちの人生。その中には、英雄豪傑らに比肩する生き様や、涙無しには語れない物語がありました。

「細川ガラシヤ夫人」
明智光秀の娘で、細川忠興の妻として幸せに暮らしていた迦羅奢。本能寺の変によって彼女は、「反逆人の娘」として山の尼院での隠遁を余儀なくされた。やがて天下人となった豊臣秀吉がその境遇に深く同情し、その媒酌により、再び忠興のもとに戻ってきたが、辛い日々の中で命を長らえさせたものはキリスト教への信仰であった。秀吉の死後、徳川家康と石田三成の対立が激化し、家康が上杉討伐の兵を起こした際に、三成は大阪城下の大名方の夫人らを人質にとるべく、細川家の屋敷に軍勢を差し向けた。しかし、迦羅奢はこれを敢然と拒否して、驚くべき手段を取るのだった……

「静御前」
平家を倒した立役者である源義経に見初められた、当代名うての白拍子・静。義経追討令により京を追われた義経は、吉野山の奥深くで静と別れた。やがて、鎌倉方に囚われた静は、頼朝の前で舞いを奉納することになるが、頼朝の意に反して、義経との別れを哀しみ恋うる曲を舞った。それが 「吉野山 峰の白雪踏みわけて...

近代で最初に『源氏物語』を訳した与謝野晶子は、それぞれの帖の冒頭に、その帖の内容をふまえた歌を一首詠んでいます。その晶子の歌もすべて収録しています。

This is the story of an artist who was willing to sacrifice everything for the sake of art. In much of its general outline, this famous novel follows the life of Paul Gauguin, famous French post-impressionist painter, but it is not a novelized biography of Gauguin. Rather it is a sharply-delineated, carefully wrought "private life", written by one of the most vivid and penetrating contemporary literary masters.

It is 1880, in the Opera House in Paris. Everybody is talking about the Phantom of the Opera, the ghost that lives somewhere under the Opera House. The Phantom is a man in black clothes. He is a body without a head, he is a head without a body. He has a yellow face, he has no nose, he has black holes for eyes. Everybody is afraid of the Phantom – the singers, the dancers, the directors, the stage workers.

First published in 1884, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is among the first novels in American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English. Some have called it the first Great American Novel, and the book has become required reading in many schools throughout the United States. The story is set along the Mississippi River in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Arkansas around 1840. It depicts the development of Huckleberry (Huck) Finn, a boy about thirteen years old.