A Signature Performance: Kenneth Branagh plays this like a campfire ghost story, told by a haunted, slightly insane Marlow.

A Room of One's Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College Cambridge, is one of the great feminist polemics. Woolf's blazing polemic on female creativity, the role of the writer, and the silent fate of Shakespeare's imaginary sister remains a powerful reminder of a woman's need for financial independence and intellectual freedom.

The Sorrows of Young Werther is a loosely based autobiographical novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It was first published in 1774 and is one of the most famous-and infamous-works in the history of literature. Werther, a sensitive young man falls in love with Lotte, a sweet-natured girl he meets while visitng an idyllic German village. Although Lotte is betrothed to Albert, Werther’s infatuation with her torments him to the point of despair and suicide.

Audiobook narrators Mike Vendetti and Kathy Verduin bring Hemingway's classic masterpiece "The Sun Also Rises" to life. Travel with them through pre-WWII Europe as Hemingway explores the dysfunctional relationship of friends drawn together by a beautiful, troubled, and often confused woman, plus the drama and excitement of the bullfights.

Long considered one of the best American novels of our time, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable tale of an American ambulance driver and his passionate affair with a beautiful English nurse. Set against the backdrop of World War I, this gripping semi-autobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war as only Hemingway can. A story of love and pain, loyalty and desertion, A Farewell to Arms paints an intimate portrait of the pain and intensity of a love overshadowed by the inexorable creep of global war.

小説家、陸軍軍医、翻訳家、官僚など様々な顔を持つ森鴎外　初期の代表作『舞姫』、肥後藩を舞台に史実を元にした歴史短編小説『阿部一族』 など、いつの時代も読み継がれる名作 17作品を収録

Philip Carey, a sensitive orphan born with a clubfoot, finds himself in desperate need of passion and inspiration. He abandons his studies to travel, first to Heidelberg and then to Paris, where he nurses ambitions of becoming a great artist. Philip's youthful idealism erodes, however, as he comes face-to-face with his own mediocrity and lack of impact on the world. After returning to London to study medicine, he becomes wildly infatuated with Mildred, a vulgar, tawdry waitress, and begins a doomed love affair.

日本最古の和歌集。現代に響く万葉びとの歌声古典文学の主要作品をセレクトし、現代語訳と原文とで構成した「日本の古典をよむ」（全20冊）シリーズの1冊です。「万葉集」は、飛鳥時代から奈良時代中期までの歌を集めた約4500首、全20巻の歌集。代表的歌人は額田王、柿本人麻呂、高市黒人、山部赤人、山上憶良、高橋虫麻呂、大伴旅人、大伴家持など。

First published in 1843, it tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and unpleasant man who dislikes people generally and Christmas especially. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come and given a glimpse of the many homes and lives which Scrooge has touched in his wretched life to date. After their visits, Scrooge is transformed into a kinder, gentler man.

Looking for a practical guide to the fulfillment of your dreams? Based on natural laws which govern all of creation, this audio shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition. In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra distills the essence of his teachings into 7 simple, yet powerful principles that can easily be applied to create success in all areas of your life.

「大人のための」と断つたのは、子供には毒性がいささか強すぎるのと、話の性質思はずエロティックに傾くことがあつたのとで、大人の方により一層喜ばれさうだからです。 ・・・・・あとがき より

Timothy Williamson tackles some of the key questions surrounding philosophy in new and provocative ways, showing how philosophy begins in common sense curiosity, and develops through our capacity to dispute rationally with each other. Discussing philosophy's ability to clarify our thoughts, he explains why such clarification depends on the development of philosophical theories, and how those theories can be tested by imaginative thought experiments, and compared against each other by standards similar to those used in the natural and social sciences.

戦後生まれの代表的な作家となった中上健次(1946-1992)は、郷里・熊野と土地に根差した一族への痛切なこだわりを終生いだき続けた。

Here is the dramatic story of young, docile Emil Sinclair's descent - led by precocious schoolmate Max Demian - into a secret and dangerous world of petty crime and revolt against convention and eventual awakening to selfhood.

日本の文学史でも、指折りの短編小説の名手である芥川龍之介。多くの傑作を残し、その作品は平易な文体ながらも、その秀逸な言葉選びや、深くまで切り込んだ心理描写の生々しさも相俟って、読み手を瞬く間に作品世界に引き込みます。

「羅生門」
ある日の暮方の事である。一人の下人が、羅生門の下で雨が止むのを待っていた。彼は四五日前に主人に暇を出されていた。雨が止んだところで、彼に行き先は無かったのである。羅生門の楼の内には、噂に聞いた通り、幾つかの死骸が無造作に棄てられていたが、その中に蹲っている人間を見た。檜皮色の着物を着た、背の低い、痩やせた、白髪頭の、猿のような老婆であった。その老婆は、女性の死骸の首に両手をかけると、丁度、猿の親が猿の子の虱をとるように、その長い髪の毛を一本ずつ抜きはじめた。その様を見た下人は、悪を憎む心に駆られ、太刀に手をかけながら、大股に老婆の前へ歩みよった。老婆は、一目下人を見ると、まるで弩にでも弾かれたように、飛び上った。下人は、老婆が死骸につまずきながら、慌てふためいて逃げようとする行手を塞いで、こう罵った。
「おのれ、どこへ行く」……

「魔術」
私が友人を介して交際していたインド人のマティラム・ミスラは魔術の大家でもあったが、実際に彼が魔術を使ったところを見たことの無かった私は、約束を取り