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三人の奇妙な女の人間模様。

「何でもない」 病的な嘘つきであり、それでも憎めない不思議な魅力を持つ看護婦の姫草ユリ子。周囲の人間を翻弄し、嘘に嘘を重ねた末の彼女が取った選択は……？

最愛の妹を亡くし傷ついた心を癒やすため、峻（たかし）は城のある町の姉の家に滞在し、心を癒そうと決めた。

魯迅の代表作ともいえる短編小説のひとつ。1921年5月『新青年』に発表され、のちに魯迅の最初の作品集である『吶喊』（1923年）に収録された。作品に描かれた主人公の生家の没落、故郷からの退去

The unmissable novel from Fran Littlewood: a story of three grown sisters, whose father - in a moment of crisis - accidentally lets slip that he has a favourite daughter…

Teoh Yun Ling was seventeen years old when she first heard about Aritomo and the garden. But a war would come to Malaya, and a decade pass before she would travel to see him. A man of extraordinary skill and reputation, Aritomo was once the gardener for the Emperor of Japan, and now Yun Ling needs him. She needs him to help her build a memorial to her beloved sister, killed at the hands of the Japanese.

After his daughter overdosed and died, William Thomas Knox brutally murdered billionaire Skip Buchanan, patriarch of the family most responsible for the American opioid epidemic. One year later, veteran Harper Scott is out of work and just desperate enough to take a job protecting members of the hated Buchanan family. Then, as the online mob grows and death threats against the Buchanans reach a fevered pitch, another Buchanan is murdered and Harper is thrown into a race to find the killer.

La más breve de las novelas de Galindo, y una de las más populares, estudiadas y admiradas. Cuenta la historia de la solterona Camerina Rabasa, en la soledad de la neblinosa ciudad de Xalapa a principios del siglo XX. Profundamente conmovedora en su sencillez, resulta de lectura agradable, no libre de conflictos y epifanías.

Questo è un romanzo fatto di lettere, ma non è un romanzo epistolare come gli altri. Si alternano due voci: da una parte c'è lui, Roberto Vecchioni, che racconta a un fantomatico nonno alcuni degli episodi più significativi della sua vita. Li riporta in presa diretta, proprio mentre gli accadono, a dieci, quindici, trenta, ottant'anni. Infanzia, amicizie, studi, canzoni, dolori, amori. Sconfitte e vittorie. Il nonno, dal canto suo, non gli risponde mai: forse non ce n'è bisogno, forse conosce Roberto fin troppo bene.

When the stones of her home begin to rattle and call out to her in the quiet of the night, Pauline Sinclair knows she will not live to see her 100th birthday. From educating herself through stolen books to becoming one of the most successful ganja farmers in the area and raising a family, Pauline has lived a life on her own terms in Mason Hall, a rural Jamaican village. Yet these whispering walls promise to topple the foundations of her security and exhume Pauline's many buried secrets

Alice has been cleaning Tom's flat every Wednesday for a year. With every smudge wiped from his coffee cup, every crease smoothed out in his bed, every multivitamin counted from the jar, Alice spirals deeper into infatuation. But as Alice prepares for the moment when they will finally meet face-to-face, she discovers that love might not be the cure she thought it was...

Electric, defiant, and singing with melancholia, Alejandra Banca's devastating debut throws its arms around a displaced generation of young Venezuelan migrants, reveling in the clamor and beauty of their day-by-day survival.

Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us, told through the eyes of Peregrine, an AI mother grappling with the unexpected death of her human daughter, Poppy.

It’s the day before her daughter’s wedding and things are not going well for Gail Baines. First thing, she loses her job – or quits, depending who you ask. Then her ex-husband Max turns up at her door expecting to stay for the festivities. He doesn’t even have a suit. Instead, he’s brought memories, a shared sense of humour – and a cat looking for a new home. Just as Gail is wondering what’s next, their daughter Debbie discovers her groom has been keeping a secret…

One morning in December, Kyungha is called to her friend Inseon’s hospital bedside. Airlifted to Seoul for an operation following a wood-chopping accident, Inseon is bedridden and begs Kyungha to take the first plane to her home on Jeju Island to feed her pet bird, who will quickly die unless it receives food. Unfortunately, as Kyungha arrives a snowstorm hits. Lost in a world of snow, she begins to wonder if she will arrive in time to save the bird – or even survive the terrible cold that envelops her with every step.

Thomas, a young German musician, is dying. Leo, a renowned Italian writer and Thomas's boyfriend, finds it impossible to mourn his loss and condemns himself to wandering the Earth, in the hope of finding the dividing line between the living and the dead. He travels through a Europe where past and present overlap, roads intersect, years merge and faces emerge - and tries in vain to bring into focus the blurred lines of their relationship.

太宰治の名文を、プロの朗読でお楽しみください。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】画家、陶芸家、書道家など、芸術家として活動した北大路魯山人による「書」論。茶道に携わる人の字は、まずそうに上手い。

「蜘蛛の糸」地獄に落ちたカンダタにお釈迦様から救いの細い蜘蛛の糸が・・・。教科書でおなじみの芥川龍之介の代表作です。「鼻」　「禅智内供の鼻と云えば、池の尾で知らない者はない。長さは五六寸あって上唇の上から顋の下まで下っている。形は元も先も同じように太い。云わば細長い腸詰めのような物が、ぶらりと顔のまん中からぶら下っているのである。……」「鼻」今昔物語から想を採った、奇異な鼻をもてあます僧の煩悩と悟りに至る一部始終。夏目漱石に絶賛され、一躍芥川龍之介を人気作家に押し上げた名編。[注]本朗読において、今日の表現基準に照らして不適切と思われる語句や表現がありますが、発表時の時代的背景と文学性を考え合わせ、底本どおりに読んでおります。ご了承ください。(C)アイ文庫

When F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby in the early 1920s, the American Dream was already on the skids. Originally based on the idea that the pursuit of happiness involves not only material success, but moral and spiritual growth, the dream had, by Fitzgerald's time, become increasingly focused on money and pleasure - a phenomenon with which the high-living writer was all too familiar.

【解説】 新婚２週間もたたないうちに、家庭争議の素が舞い込んできた。「第３者としての一女性」という妙な差出人からの手紙であった。読めば、学生時代の友人に結婚を勧められた女学生、”岡アイコ”の知り合いらしい女性からだった。もう８年も前のことなのだが、岡アイコは、私の結婚申し込みを断っておきながら、私のことが気になって仕方がなかったという。その時のお詫びと気持ちの整理に本人がお訪ねしたい、と言うのだそうである。探偵社を使って私の消息を調べたそうだが、その調査内容のなんと正確なこと！ 　かつて結婚まで考えた、「厭でない女」が自分を訪ねてくるという申し出に、私はどこかそわそわ、ドキドキ。慌てて隠したはずの手紙も勘の鋭い妻にあっさりと見つかってしまい、遂に彼女ははやってきた・・・。 「そんな最近に結婚したくらいの男は、厭でない女といっしょに歩くことなど大好き」――と書く井伏鱒二独特のユーモアが滲み出る作品。滋味深い男ごころをさらりと描く。 【朗読時間】 　５７分２５秒 【朗読】wis ※透明感と落ち着きのある声で親しまれている女性朗読家です。