It is a June day in London in 1923, and the lovely Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Whom will she see? Her friend Peter, back from India, who has never really stopped loving her? What about Sally, with whom Clarissa had her life’s happiest moment? Meanwhile, the shell-shocked Septimus Smith is struggling with his life on the same London day.

Published in 1928, Orlando is a fictional biography that spans several centuries and follows the protagonist, Orlando, an Elizabethan nobleman who undergoes a mysterious gender transformation. The novel explores themes of gender identity, fluidity and the constraints imposed by societal norms. It challenges traditional notions of gender roles and raises questions about the nature of identity and the passage of time.

The Waves traces the lives of six friends from childhood to old age. It was written when Virginia Woolf was at the height of her experimental powers, and she allows each character to tell their own story, through powerful, poetic monologues. By listening to these voices struggling to impose order and meaning on their lives, we are drawn into a literary journey that stunningly reproduces the complex, confusing and contradictory nature of human experience. It is read with affection and skill by Frances Jeater.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

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.

明治期の文学者、夏目漱石の長編小説。

初出は「東京朝日新聞」「大阪朝日新聞」［1907（明治40）年］。1907年、漱石は小説家として生きる決意を固め、東京帝国大学を辞職して朝日新聞社に入社した。この作品は入社後はじめての新聞連載小説。誇り高い自我を持つヒロイン藤尾は親の決めた相手ではない男と結婚しようとするが、義理の兄が道義を守らせるために画策する。誇りを傷つけられた藤尾は自殺する。藤尾に象徴される近代文明を批判した作品とされるが、「悪」としての藤尾の人気は連載当時から高く、虞美人草ドレスという商品まで現れる社会現象となった。

Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. The stories comprise a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle-class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish nationalism was at its peak, and a search for a national identity and purpose was raging; at a crossroads of history and culture, Ireland was jolted by various converging ideas and influences.

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.

〈その一〉一葉が数え16歳のときに書いたとされる貴重な最初の日記「身のふる衣 まきのいち」から当時の日常生活が書かれた「わか草」までを抜粋して収録いたしました。

Anne Elliot has grieved for seven years over the loss of her first love, Captain Frederick Wentworth. But events conspire to unravel the knots of deceit and misunderstanding in this beguiling and gently comic story of love and fidelity.

Dorothea Brooke is an ardent idealist who represses her vivacity and intelligence for the cold, theological pedant Casaubon. One man understands her true nature: the artist Will Ladislaw. But how can love triumph against her sense of duty and Casaubon’s mean spirit? Meanwhile, in the little world of Middlemarch, the broader world is mirrored: the world of politics, social change, and reforms, as well as betrayal, greed, blackmail, ambition, and disappointment.

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.

The Portrait of a Lady tells the compelling and ultimately tragic tale of a beautiful young American woman's encounter with European sophistication. Set principally in England and Italy, the story follows Isabel Archer's fortunes as a variety of admirers vie for her hand. Her choice will be crucial, and she is not wanting for advice, whether from the generous-spirited Ralph Touchett or the charming Madame Merle.

Jane Austen’s most popular novel, originally published in 1813, some 17 years after it was first written, presents the Bennet family of Longbourn. Against the background of gossipy Mrs. Bennet and the detached Mr. Bennet, the quest is on for husbands for the five daughters. The spotlight falls on Elizabeth, second eldest, who is courted by Mr. Darcy, though initially she is more concerned with the fate of her other sisters. This marvelous account of family life in Regency England is read with customary panache by Juliet Stevenson.

Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, agrees to lend Antonio, a Venetian merchant, three thousand ducats so that his friend Bassanio can afford to court his love, Portia. However, Shylock has one condition: Should the loan go unpaid, he will be entitled to a pound of Antonio's own flesh. Meanwhile in Belmont, according to the terms of her father's will, Portia's many suitors must choose correctly from three caskets. Bassanio arrives at Portia's estate and they declare their love for one another before he picks the correct casket.

主人公・唯野仁。彼は若年ながら早治大学英米文学科の名物教授であり、実は隠れて小説を発表している新進作家である。 いいですね!うらやましいですね!唯野先生、多才ですね!・・・しかしその内幕は、グロテスクな日常---賄賂の対象にされなくて拗ねちゃった学部長等々---を乗り切らなければならないは、壮大な文学理論を打ち立てなければならないは、締め切りもあるし、でもそれはヒミツだしと、超☆多忙。 ・・・さて。 事実は小説より奇なり。象牙の塔の内情は、こんな甘いものではないぞ、もっとむちゃくちゃだぞという某大学教員の証言があるのですがどうでしょう。 笑いすぎて涙がこぼれるほど笑えるのは、コレが「よくできたフィクション」と思ってるからなのですが・・・ コレが事実、またはそれ以下なら笑うに笑えないと思うのですけれど、どうでしょう・・・ 悩みはアナタを追い込むことでしょう!総時間10時間を超え、プロデューサーも追い込みました!まさに怪作!これぞ日本版オーディオブックの真髄です。 「ことのは出版オーディオブックの情報はhttp://www.kotonoha.co.jpにて」

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.

※可能な限り音質向上を試みましたが、本作には聴きづらい箇所がございます。音源の歴史的価値を考慮して配信しておりますこと、予めご了承ください。

阪神・淡路大震災の１年後、 芦屋市民センターの一室で行われた。 講演日時：1996年1月13日 主催：森集会 場所：芦屋市民センター 収載書誌：春秋社『本当の考え・うその考え』（1997年）

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※可能な限り音質向上を試みましたが、本作には聴きづらい箇所がございます。音源の歴史的価値を考慮して配信しておりますこと、予めご了承ください。

原題は「座と文学」。 講演日時：1984年9月13日 主催：本郷青色申告会／本郷青色大学 場所：本郷青色申告会館 収載書誌：弓立社『超西欧的まで』（1987年）

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※可能な限り音質向上を試みましたが、本作には聴きづらい箇所がございます。音源の歴史的価値を考慮して配信しておりますこと、予めご了承ください。

中上健次氏、三上治氏と吉本隆明の主催によりオールナイトで行われたイベント「いま、吉本隆明25時」の講演。主催者挨拶と吉本隆明の１回目の講演を収録。
講演日時：1987年9月12日
主催：中上健次／三上治／吉本隆明
場所：品川・寺田倉庫T-33号館4F
収載書誌：弓立社『いま、吉本隆明25時』（1988年）

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琵琶法師の語りによって全国に広まった物語を今、朗読であらためて語り継ぐ――

Following a violent and messy divorce, young Maisie Farange floats back and forth between her parents, Beale and Ida, who use her as a weapon to torment each other in their ongoing, internecine war. Eventually the parents both remarry, and it becomes clear that the new spouses care more for Maisie than her own parents. Beale and Ida soon embark on a series of extramarital affairs, leaving Maisie in the care of the new step-parents, who begin their own affair with each other.

日本のジャズレコードやライブの多くを占めるピアノトリオ。バンドのリズムセクションが独立して成立した比較的新しい演奏編成とはいえ、モダンジャズの入り口でもある。

Pressured into a political career by his traditional, establishmentarian family, Nick Dormer longs to be a painter. Eventually, encouraged by the carefree aesthete Gabriel Nash, reminiscent of Oscar Wilde, he resigns from Parliament and follows his artistic dream. His journey is counterpointed with that of budding young actress Miriam Rooth, the subject of Nick's most successful paintings, and the "tragic muse" of the title, who too sacrifices an affluent life (marriage with Nick's cousin Peter) for her art.

企業から消費者への「情報伝達」が激変している。これまでは報道関係者向けだったＰＲ（パブリック・リレーションズ）は、今やＳＮＳや動画配信サイトを介して消費者へ直接つながる手段となっている。