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【小学館の名作文芸朗読】本所相生町の煙草売り・平吉は貧しい独り者だが、橋番に勧められて富籤を買い続け、湯島の富で百両に当たる。大金を持つ不安からまず借金を返し、残りは町内の左官親方の妻に預け、橋番には放し鰻の代金として一分三つを渡して明日放す約束をする。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】豊富な良水を持つ京都は古来より豆腐作りで名高い土地である。特に精進料理を好む京都人の嗜好も相まって、上質な豆腐の産地として知られていた。

この人を好きになってよかった――140字で綴られる、出会いと別れ、そして再会。（以下、本文『別れの挨拶』引用）「またね」それが彼とお決まりの挨拶だった。また次の機会にね、そんな意味を込めて。

In this “beautifully composed” (Joyce Carol Oates) short story collection—the title piece successfully made into an HBO film—the complex relationships between lovers, spouses, neighbors, and friends are artfully explored. When the austere and moving title story of this collection...

From the Queen of Erotica, a smart, witty, and extremely sexy collection of short stories—the second volume to her highly successful Zane’s Sex Chronicles, the book behind the Cinemax series. Scenarios run the gamut from committed, monogamous couples looking to experiment to wild, single...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In a desolate, sun-scorched valley near Hampden, a lone wanderer comes upon a grotesque, twisted tree crowning a barren hill—and is gripped by a dread he cannot explain. When he photographs the strange oak, the developed images reveal not the world...

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】明治以降の教育の変化と文学の「浪漫主義/自然主義」を対応させて論じた講演記録。昔の教育は忠孝や聖人像を絶対的理想とし、感激と情緒を強調する一元的な徳育だったのに対し、近代の教育は、事実から出発して人間の欠点や二面性も認める二元的な教育へ移った。

『貧しき人々の群』『伸子』『播州平野』『道標』などの代表作で知られ、昭和期に活動した作家の随筆。今日、社会の機構は我々の「純情」を活かしきれないものになっている。娘、愛人、妻として生きる女の一生は、種々の不如意に制約されている。一人の女が自分のもつすべての魅力、智恵、真率さをそのまま、愛する者を愛して幸福に生きたいという欲望の実現に生かし切ることは、不可能になりつつある。

This year's shortlist of six exceptional stories each take the listener on an intense and gripping journey into the human heart. With poise, precision, and a light-footed grace, they conjure dramatically different, starkly real worlds. Hailing from Ireland, the United States and The Bahamas, the finalists of 2020 share stories on subjects as far apart as their settings, exploring among them romantic and marital discord, dark secrets, homelessness and even a high school football team; yet each one opens doors into its characters' lives in surprising and moving ways.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Manuel García, an aging bullfighter freshly out of the hospital after a brutal goring, refuses to accept that his time is over. Against the advice of everyone around him – a skeptical promoter, a weary picador friend, a contemptuous critic – he...

Do monsters have midlife crises? Because I’m pretty sure I’m having one…My kind bring trouble and chaos wherever they go. I can’t change that; it’s just the way things are. So rather than continue to watch the people around me being impacted by my curse, I did the only thing I thought I could, I stepped away from the world. I love my cottage. And my life. But it can get a little lonely. So when my friend mixes up a special coffee, one that could make my life a little more fulfilling, I drink it eagerly, ready for whatever life might throw at me.

Working for Hudson Cole was supposed to be temporary. Everyone in the office knows he's impossible—cold, demanding, and allergic to smiling. His assistants usually quit within days. But I refuse to be one of them. I organize his schedule, keep his billion-dollar company running smoothly, and ignore the way his dark eyes follow me when he thinks I'm not looking.

For Isabel, the artist who no longer believes in love, Safe Harbor’s therapy program is just another checklist item to survive her parents’ divorce. But what begins as a tense session filled with mistrust and heartbreak blooms into something that neither Isabel nor the other teens in the program could have expected. Maybe it’s time to begin again?

Burned out and working a postcollege job she hates, Allison Yang drops dead in her office—and wakes up three years in the past. Back at college. She has one chance for a redo at life: from switching majors and facing toxic friends to being fearless with her parents. And, perhaps, approaching the popular athlete she’d always loved from afar. Fingers crossed that this time will count.

On the eve of her senior year, Julia has a look so new she doesn’t even recognize herself in the mirror. It’s the only reason she feels bold enough to talk to Wyatt, the boy she’s been staring at for three years. Tonight, at the drive-in, Wyatt finally stares back. Does he see Julia? Or some new and perfect stranger?

Elin's across-the-street neighbor has gotten a little obsessive about mowing the lawn. Shadow Hill's HOA isn't that strict. Is there something darker going on? Or is Elin just letting her imagination run away with her?

These provocative Pride and Prejudice 'what-if' stories include all the passion you might expect of worldly gentlemen violently in love with equally headstrong women, along with enough obstacles, mischief, and intrigue to keep you listening. Featuring: Book One: To Have His Cake (and Eat It Too): Mr. Darcy's Tale In this amorous, provocative, and at times tumultuous tale, Mr. Darcy is a wealthy young man of sense and education with considerable knowledge of the world. He is his own master. He enjoys his lifestyle and has no particular desire to marry at all.

Eric, a college freshman, joins his four dormmates for an afternoon in New York City—the first time he’s seen them outside their campus bubble. But feeling increasingly invisible among these new friends, Eric’s anxieties compound. As they roam the streets of New York, Eric begins to question if he’s even truly wanted there. Soon, though, the friends start to reveal pieces of themselves. Can Eric let go enough to show them who he really is?

The Blackthorn women have always possessed magic. For Helena, working at her candy store in the small town of Faith Falls, it’s the secret ingredient for handmade chocolates that satisfy more than a craving. But behind Helena’s delicious gift is a secret she’s kept from everyone, including the patient handyman who waits for her heart. As a rejuvenating spring thaw arrives, it’s time for Helena—as well as friends, family, and enemies alike—to set her secrets free.

In Beekman Place on the sedate eastside of Manhattan, Oliver, a film history major who is inspired by his favorite Hitchcock film: Rear Window, is an observer of life in the windows of his neighbors…all sorts of characters he gives nicknames to. He finds himself particularly captivated by the boyish blonde guy living on the fourth floor across the street. What starts as stolen glances through his apartment window becomes more real when he meets the cute guys sister one day walking her dog.