有名な古典を名古屋地方を中心に活動されているトップクラスのナレーター、榊原忠美氏が圧倒する表現力で「おくのほそ道」(奧の細道)を朗読。「夏草や 兵(つはもの)どもが 夢のあと」「閑さや岩にしみ入蝉の声」「五月雨を あつめて早し 最上川」・・・松尾芭蕉の俳句、いくつ覚えていますか? (C)アイ文庫 「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

Four years after the Great War, America is enjoying an economic boom. Enigmatic veteran Jay Gatsby, who's risen from being nobody from nowhere to self-made millionaire, is along for the ride. Upwardly mobile, he reaches for status among the "old money" on Long Island - and for all that it promises across the bay, namely Daisy, the lost love of his youth, who has been married for five years to Gatsby's contemptible rival, Tom Buchanan. With all his wealth and charmed aspirations to restore the past, Gatsby is certain he can win her back.

In this Very Short Introduction, Simon Horobin investigates how we have arrived at the English we know today and celebrates the way new speakers and new uses mean that it continues to adapt. Engaging with contemporary concerns about correctness, Horobin considers whether such changes are improvements or evidence of slipping standards.

King Lear has lived a long and difficult life as a king and decides that he wants to retire of his duties. To absolve himself of power, Lear decides to split his kingdom among his three daughters based on their affections toward him. While two of his daughters flatter their father and declare their fealty and respect, his third daughter refuses to flatter his ego and declares that she only loves him because he is her father. This disrespect causes Lear to leave her nothing.

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

Hamlet by William Shakespeare is one of the Shakespeare’s most well-known and beloved tragedy plays. Set in Denmark, it tells the story of Hamlet, a man whose father was murdered and replaced by Hamlet’s uncle Claudius. The play follows Hamlet as he discovers the truth of his father’s fate and becomes more and more distressed and enraged as he plots vengeance against his uncle.

L'action se situe en 1625, sous le règne de Louis XIII. D'Artagnan, jeune gascon courageux et rusé, est muni d'une lettre de recommandation de son père pour M. de Tréville, commandant des Mousquetaires. Très vite, il devient l'ami de trois gentilshommes, mousquetaires du roi, Athos, Porthos et Aramis. Tous quatre vont sauver la reine Anne d'Autriche des perfides manœuvres de Richelieu. Des aventures semées d'embûches qui ne feront pas renoncer les quatre compères.

This metaphysical self-help classic instills happiness within and urges individuals to pursue a content life without sin, boredom, or contempt. Written decades ago with post-war depression in mind, this text has transcended time and continues to give applicable advice for modern-day individuals.

Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the world changing around him.

In The Best Cases of The Continental Op, an original compilation of eight stories from Skyboat Media, the Op walks, stalks, and runs down the steep streets of San Francisco to solve crimes of blackmail, murder, stolen identities, and arson, and each story contains so many twists and turns you’ll be hooked until the very (surprising) end....

大坂城落城に際して、真田幸村があたえた使命。秀頼の子種を胎にたたかう女忍者たち。彼女らの捨て身の覚悟と妖艶さに、さしもの伊賀忍の精鋭たちも翻弄される。豊臣と徳川。千姫と家康。信濃忍法と伊賀忍法。女と男。その凄絶にして淫靡な戦い。関が原の大戦で勝利をおさめたというのに徳川家は裏も表ももう大混乱である。歴史上の出来事とくノ一たちの戦いが巧妙に織りあわせれているため、あたかも歴史の裏で実際にあったことのような錯覚を受ける。・・・錯覚?・・・・・・これが本当に起きた話ではないと誰が断言できるだろうか・・・・・・?蛇足ながら、本作はそのエロティックさでも知られているが、女性人気も高い。出産と仕事とを一手こなす自分たちに重なるのかもしれない。 「ことのは出版オーディオブック作品一覧はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

■親を入れるか否（いな）か―悩む前に知っておきたい いい施設だと評判だったのに、入居したらひどい目に遭（あ）った――。

傷痍軍人のバートンが療養のために妹とその村に居を構えて間もなく、悪意と中傷に満ちた匿名の手紙が住民に無差別に届けられた。陰口、噂話、疑心暗鬼が村全体を覆い、やがて名士の夫人が服毒自殺を遂げた。

The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of 60 million people spread across lands encircling the Mediterranean and stretching from northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates, and from the Rhine to the North African coast. It was, above all else, an empire of force - employing a mixture of violence, suppression, order, and tactical use of power to develop an astonishingly uniform culture.

Welcome to Zootopia, an amazing animal city where anyone can be anything! But when optimistic Judy Hopps—the first-ever bunny cop—arrives for her first day on the job, she discovers that being a small bunny on a police force of big, tough animals isn’t so easy.