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【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

青森市の郊外に住む男は、軍隊から帰還後、母方の伯父が局長を務める郵便局で働いていた。ある日から、男は「トカトントン」という音を聞くようになる。この音は彼の意欲や感情を打ち消してしまう。花江という女性に恋をしたとき、労働者のデモを目撃し感銘を受けたとき、駅伝競走を見て感動したとき。決まって「トカトントン」という音に邪魔されてしまうのであった。

One legend unites the stubborn and ferocious duardin throughout the Mortal Realms. Within Fyreslayer lodges, ancient stone halls, and Kharadron sky-ports, the duardin speak of a traveller older than the realms themselves. As the story goes, white-bearded Grombrindal appears in his people's darkest moments. Wielding words just as surely as his axe, the White Dwarf guides his people and cleaves victory from certain defeat. Few have faced him in battle and lived to tell the tale. Against orruks, the Ruinous Powers, and untold horrors, the duardin will see the truth in their enduring legend.

The Odyssey tells of the heroic journey of Odysseus after the Trojan war. In his attempt to return home to Ithaca, this ancient hero is faced with obstacle after obstacle, mythic creature after mythic creature. This is an epic poem encompassing an epic journey as famous as it is classic. Translated by Stanley Lombardo.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】寺田寅彦の随筆。古代北欧の英雄譚と日常のピアノ練習を組み合わせた構成になっている。春の寒い時期、床に臥せっていた寺田は、Heimskringlaという書物を手に取った。それはスノルレ・スツール・ラソンが12世紀末に記録したスカンジナヴィアの古い物語である。また、隣室では長女がメンデルスゾーンの「春の歌」のピアノ練習をしていた。

Father Brown is an eccentric priest with his own particular ways of dealing with crime. David Timson, having completed the whole of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes canon, a remarkable achievement, turns his hand to the genial but certainly not innocent priest! This collection contains a group of stories from the Innocence of Father Brown, told unabridged.

The definitive short story collection that established Ernest Hemingway's literary reputation, originally published in 1938. Ernest Hemingway is a cultural icon—an archetype of rugged masculinity, a romantic ideal of the intellectual in perpetual exile—but, to his countless readers...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

おばあさんが豆を煮ようと火を起こそうとした時、豆が一粒だけ床のわらのそばに転がっていく。その後から炭が竈から跳ね出して二人のところにやって来る。命拾いをした三人は友達になり、一緒にどこかよその国へ行くことに。やがて小さな流れのあるところに出たが、橋も渡し板もなく途方に暮れる。わらがうまいことを考えつき、向こう岸まで渡れるよう体を長々とのばす。

Explore classic retro-futurist storytelling in Golden Age Science Fiction Short Stories Vol. 5, featuring unforgettable works by Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, and Fredric Brown. This collection delivers suspense, imagination, and thought-provoking adventures from the golden age of science fiction.

O. Henry, the pseudonym of the American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910), is best known for writing stories full of wit, wordplay, and warm characterizations, and particularly for their clever twist endings. This volume contains 20 of O. Henry's best and best-loved stories. They are marked by coincidence and surprise endings as well as the compassion and high humor that have made O. Henry's stories popular for the last century.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】坂口安吾は、葬式や通夜といった儀式を無意味で退屈なものとし、葬式に出席しない主義を貫いている。

Brought to you by Penguin. A collection of Kafka's greatest short fiction, translated by Michael Hofmann Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, the story of an ordinary man transformed into an insect, is brought together in this collection with the rest of his works that...

Een erotische kerstkalender: een collectie korte verhalen uitgegeven door LUST bevat een erotisch seksverhaal voor de adventdagen.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

アメリカのウィネツカ滞在時に執筆した随筆集。ウィネツカと札幌を比較しながら、北国特有の春の風景や情趣を描写している。庭木の自然さ、北海道の山うどの風味、鰊の美味しさ、アメリカにおける食品の過剰生産、東京・大阪間の高速道路計画への疑問、北海道の重要性と開発の課題など、多様なテーマが論じられていく。

The Apology of Socrates, written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal self-defense which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC. Specifically, the Apology of Socrates is a defense against the charges of "corrupting the youth" and "not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" to Athens.

휴식은 게으른 것도, 멈추는 것도 아닙니다. 우리의 뇌가 과부하되기 전에 적극적으로 휴식을 취해야 더 충만한 에너지를 얻을 수 있으니까요. 스웨덴에선 '피카 타임'을 외치며 일부러 쉬어가는 시간을 갖습니다. 일과 쉼...

The life of a Scrivener can be a dull one. After all, your entire occupation has to do with the handwritten copying of law documents. But when Bartleby arrives, he turns the office upside down with the enigmatic phrase: “I prefer not to.”

Collins brings the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, to English language learners. Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time and in any language. Now Collins has adapted her famous detective novels for English language learners. These carefully abridged versions are shorter...

Dashiell Hammett is best known as both pioneer and master of American hard-boiled detective fiction, but these dozen and a half stories both affirm that reputation and present him in a different light. Along with the full-length treatments On the Make and The Kiss-Off, this collection includes never before and rarely published stories that explore failed romance, courage in the face of uncertainty, hypocrisy, and crass opportunism.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】近江の国に住む田原藤太は、瀬田の唐橋で二十丈もの大蛇と出会う。藤太が平然と大蛇の背を踏んで渡ると、大蛇は青い着物を着た小男に姿を変えた。小男は自らが龍王であることを明かし、三上山に住むむかでが湖を荒らし、子供たちをさらっていくと訴える。龍王は藤太に助けを求め、湖底の御殿へ案内する。

Arsène Lupin ? Ce Robin des Bois moderne met son intelligence, sa force physique et son sang-froid au secours de "l'innocence persécutée". Un caractère à la fois séduisant, torturé et mystérieux, lui ont assuré son succès auprès de nombreux lecteurs. Içi sont rassemblées l'intégrale des 36 nouvelles qui mettent en scène le personnage d'Arsène Lupin, encore que parfois il se fasse passer pour un certain Jim Barnett.