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"To Build a Fire" is the best known of all London's stories. It tells the story of a new arrival to the Klondike who stubbornly ignores warnings about the folly of traveling alone. He falls through the ice into a creek in 70-below weather, and his survival depends on being able to build a fire and dry his clothes - which he is unable to do. The famous version of this story was published in 1908.

Joyce's first major work, written when he was only 25, brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. He writes of social decline, sexual desire and exploitation, corruption and personal failure, yet creates a brilliantly compelling, unique vision of the world and of human experience.

Published at the end of Flaubert’s career, Three Tales is a collection of three compelling short stories about faith, loneliness and love. In "A Simple Heart", a saint-like servant girl begins to experience religious visions of her pet parrot after enduring the loss of loved ones. "The Legend of Saint Julian the Hospitaller" presents the origin story of Julian the Hospitaller, who renounces the violence of his past and cares for the indigent. "Herodias", the final story, retells the beheading of St. John the Baptist, and the seduction of Herod by Salome.

Arthur Conan Doyle is well known as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, but he also wrote numerous works in which the great detective played no part. Included here are a selection of the best, ranging from science fiction to tales of supernatural terror and rip-roaring adventures set in Jacobean and Regency England.

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.

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

梶井基次郎の短編小説。実体験を基にした、6つの話から成っている。峻は妹の死後、「可愛盛りで死なせた妹のことを落ちついて考えてみたい」という思いから、姉夫婦の家へやってきていた。城跡のある風景を眺めていると、彼女がこと切れた時よりも、火葬場での時よりも、「失った」という思いが強く刻まれた。そしてある日、姉が病気に罹ってしまう。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】

秩父山系の笛吹川上流部である東沢と西沢の探索記録である。広瀬から出発し、子酉川と呼ばれる上流域へ進み、南北に分かれる東沢と西沢の様子を詳述する。険しい崖や滝が連続する渓谷美と、それを越える探検的旅行の醍醐味が描かれる。特に東沢では、鶏冠谷から広河原までの区間が詳細に記録され、釜沢や信州沢といった支流の特徴も説明される。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】戦争が終わり、やっと原っぱで野球のできる喜びを感じながらも、S少年は不幸な祖国の窮屈な現状を悲しまずにいられない。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】お通は、町の呉服屋で見つけたレーヨン錦紗を買うために一生懸命お金を貯めていたが、買い物に向かう途中で蟇口を紛失してしまう。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】農学校に通う主人公は、日々の実習や家業を通じて農業の知識を学んでいる。

Millions of Amor Towles fans are in for a treat as he shares some of his shorter fiction: six stories based in New York City and a novella set in Golden Age Hollywood. The New York stories, most of which take place around the year 2000, consider the fateful consequences that can spring from brief encounters and the delicate mechanics of compromise that operate at the heart of modern marriages.

This issue of Weird Tales presents a batch of entirely new short stories, flash fiction, poems, and an essay dealing with monsters who defy death, including zombies, vampires, mummies, and various and assorted revenants. There are some real heavy hitters here—bestsellers and names listeners might not yet know … but should. And will.

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】戦争に負けて、北海道へ出征中のお父さんが三年ぶりに帰ってきた。ようやく会社に勤めるようになり、今にきっといいことがあると真面目に働く。

This bundle includes Charmed Offensive, Poetry in Potion, and Cloaks and Daggers.

A collection of seven short stories, featuring crime-fighting duo Tilly and Poe: The Killing Field, Why Don't Sheep Shrink?, Dead Man's Fingers, Strange Ink, A Permanent Solution, Mondo Bizzarro and Once in a Red Moon.

Turn up the temperature with High Heat, a sizzling erotic audiobook collection that brings your wildest fantasies to life. Featuring a seductive mix of passionate encounters, forbidden pleasures, and steamy short stories, this collection is made for listeners who crave intense chemistry, dirty talk, and unapologetic desire.

THE FIRST THREE BOOKS IN THE TOTALLY BINGE-WORTHY GRACE MCKENNA MYSTERY SERIES!

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】むかし、冬の日、王妃が血のように赤い頬、雪のように白い肌、黒檀のような黒髪の子を望み、白雪姫が生まれるが、王妃は亡くなる。

【小学館の名作文芸朗読】瀧子は裁縫教室の教師として働き、結婚を考えたことのない独身女性である。ある日、町の有力者である山口から直接結婚を申し込まれる。