Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pursuit of a "life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single blind turn of a card."

To the Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful prose ever written, minutely detailing the characters thoughts and impressions. This unabridged version is read by Juliet Stevenson.

Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, The Grass Harp tells the story of three endearing misfits - an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies - who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a china tree, The Grass Harp manages to convey all the pleasures and responsibilities of freedom. But most of all it teaches us about the sacredness of love, “that love is a chain of love, as nature is a chain of life.”

世界的画家が88歳になって到達した境地！飽きることは、「自由になる」こと。世界的画家は新鮮に飽きるために人生で遊ぶー山田詠美（作家）

「日本人が知らない日本語」再発見エッセイ　日本語を学ぶ人は全世界で400万人にのぼり、今や空前の日本語ブーム。来日した留学生たちを指導する日本語教師の北村さんはこう綴ります。

Against the mythical dreamscape of America, Auster brilliantly weaves the bizarre narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan searching for love, his father, and the key to the riddle of his origin and fate.

In Patricia Highsmith's debut novel, we encounter Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno, passengers on the same train. But while Guy is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno turns out to be a sadistic psychopath who manipulates Guy into swapping murders with him. As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy is trapped in Highsmith's perilous world - where, under the right circumstances, anybody is capable of murder.

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

【内容紹介】『世界の思想や芸術、文化に多大な影響を及ぼす、聖書と並ぶ古典中の古典、ギリシア神話。人気作家の阿刀田高さんが、多彩で豊富な物語の枝葉を巧みに整理し、有名なエピソードを取り上げてわかりやすく解説します。神話を紹介しながらも、その神話が現代にどう生きているのかにも触れていて、非常に興味深い講話です。これを聴けばあなたはもう“ギリシア神話通”。 【講師紹介】作家 阿刀田高- 1935年、東京都生まれ。世界各国の古典を読み解いた『ギリシア神話を知っていますか』などがベストセラーとなった。日本ペンクラブ会長。

Charlotte Mullins brings art to life through the stories of those who created it and, importantly, reframes who is included in the narrative to create a more diverse and exciting landscape of art. She shows how art can help us see the world differently and understand our place in it, how it helps us express ourselves, fuels our creativity, and contributes to our overall wellbeing and positive mental health.

娼婦の子トビアスは戦争孤児を装って国境を越えた。異邦にて工場労働者となった彼は、来る日も来る日も惨めな単調作業に明け暮れる。トビアスに残された希望はただひとつ、自らの夢想のなかにだけ存在する

Jim, the first mate aboard a small steamer named the Patna, travels from port to port in the Pacific Ocean. When the ship hits floating wreckage, Jim and the crew are forced to abandon it, leaving hundreds of ethnic travelers onboard. However, Jim's reprehensible actions are soon discovered by the court, and he is compelled to face his guilt and redeem himself - a journey that leads him to a remote exotic location where he is revered as the Lord, "Tuan Jim".

The unapologetic intensity with which Emily Brontë wrote this story ensures that it will forever be considered one of the greatest works of English literature. A passionate tale of a chaotic and often violent love, Wuthering Heights transcends your average romance and, with its Gothic undertones, takes the listener on a journey through one man's lustful hunt for revenge.

This Audible Exclusive performance features a unique introduction written and narrated by Miriam Margolyes. Recognised as one of Dickens' most accomplished titles, Bleak House has impressed critics and audiences alike since it was first published in 1852. The novel boasts one of the most intelligent and engaging plots in all of English literature and is sure to engage the listener's imagination as it transports us back in time to the seedy, grimy and hazardous streets of Victorian London.

For some, it’s the end of the world. For others, it’s just the beginning. With brilliant imagination, today’s most visionary writers point to the future in a collection curated by bestselling author Blake Crouch. These stories range from darkly comic to deeply chilling, but they all look forward. Featuring stories by Andy Weir, Amor Towles, Veronica Roth, N. K. Jemisin, Paul Tremblay, and Blake Crouch; with narration by Evan Rachel Wood, David Harbour, Jason Isaacs, Rosa Salazar, Steven Strait, and Janina Gavankar.

Charles Mason (1728-1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. Here is their story as re-imagined by Thomas Pynchon, featuring Native Americans and frontier folk, ripped bodices, naval warfare, conspiracies erotic and political, and major caffeine abuse. We follow the mismatched pair - one rollicking, the other depressive; one Gothic, the other pre-Romantic.

翻訳家・柴田元幸が長年愛読してきたアメリカ古典小説から選りすぐった、究極の「ザ・ベスト・オブ・ザ・ベスト」。アメリカ古典文学の途方もない豊かさを堪能できるアンソロジーを、同書の編訳を手がけた柴田元幸による朗読でお送りいたします。

ロシアの文豪フョードル・ドストエフスキー初期の短編小説。初出は『祖国雑誌』[1848年]。

「厚顔かつ無良心の打算家に対する諷刺は、柔らかな叙述に包まれながらも、くっきりと

Jazz Bashara is a criminal. Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you're not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you've got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent. Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down.

「控えめに言って、どっちもくそ」四年ごとに開かれる会社の代表選挙。一回目の投票は票が散らばったため、上位二名による決選投票が行われることになった。

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.

In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association....

アウト老とは、はみ出し老人のことなりアウト老（ロー）とは、はみ出し老人のことなり。大人げないまま新型高齢者となったみうらじゅんの珍妙な日常や妄想、愛のメモリーがてんこ盛り！

【解説】 無類の鉄道好きで知られる百鬼園先生の「阿房列車」シリーズ第1弾！ 読書界の話題をさらった名著をオーディオブック化。 　内田百けんは、漱石の弟子で軽妙洒脱、ときには毒舌の随筆で知られるが、他方で無類の鉄道好きで、元祖「鉄ちゃん」ともいえる存在。その「阿房列車」シリーズは、多数の読者を得ているが、この「特別阿房列車」はその第一弾で、終戦からの復興期の昭和26年に書かれ話題をさらった名著である。 　東京から大阪まで、「特急はと」の一等に乗るためだけに、多額の借金をし、着いた途端に戻ってくる。道連れは、国鉄に務める「ヒマラヤ山系」君。口数が少ない彼との間で交わされるとぼけた会話が可笑しい。 【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。