何という事もない人生を送っていた三上悟は、通り魔に刺され３７年の人生に幕を閉じた……はずだった。ふと気がつくと、目も見えなければ、耳も聞こえない……。そんな状況の中、自分があの“スライム”に転生してしまった事に気づく。最弱と名高いモンスターである事に不満を感じつつも、お気楽スライムライフを満喫する三上悟だったが、天災級のモンスター“暴風竜ヴェルドラ”と出会ったことで運命は大きく動き出す――

師となる漱石に絶賛された「鼻」から晩年の傑作「歯車」まで芥川龍之介が誇る短編小説の集大成が、ここに全97作品を収録

ハリー・ポッターは孤児。意地悪な従兄にいじめられながら11歳の誕生日を迎えようとしたとき、ホグワーツ魔法学校からの入学許可証が届き、自分が魔法使いだと知る。キングズ・クロス駅、9と4分の3番線から紅色の汽車に乗り、ハリーは未知の世界へ。ハリーを待ち受けていたのは、夢と、冒険、友情、そして自分の生い立ちをめぐるミステリー。

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――

拭い去れない過去の罪悪感を背負ったまま、世間の目から隠れるように暮らす“先生”と“私”との交流を通して、人の「こころ」の奥底を、漱石が鋭い洞察と筆力によって描いた不朽の名作。過去に縛られ、悔やみ、激しい葛藤のなかで身動きのとれなくなった“先生”の人生の様はあなたに何を訴えかけるだろうか。人は弱いものなのか…、シンプルでもありまた不可解でもある人の「こころ」のありようを夏目漱石が問いかける。人はどのように救われるのか?(C)青空文庫

＜収録内容＞
銀河鉄道の夜

猫の事務所

北守将軍と三人兄弟の医者

洞熊学校を卒業した三人

耕耘部の時計

林の底

セロ弾きのゴーシュ

マリヴロンと少女

化物丁場

四又の百合

山男の四月

茨海小学校

とっこべとら子

やまなし

烏の北斗七星

狼森と笊森、盗森

風の又三郎

どんぐりと山猫

革トランク

気のいい火山弾

マグノリアの木

ツェねずみ

畑のへり

イギリス海岸

台川

祭の晩

ひのきとひなげし

おきなぐさ

タネリはたしかにいちにち噛んでいたようだった

かしわばやしの夜

氷河鼠の毛皮

鹿踊りのはじ

高い壁に囲まれ、外界との接触がまるでない街で、そこに住む一角獣たちの頭骨から夢を読んで暮らす〈僕〉の物語、〔世界の終り〕。

いま、村上春樹が語り始める――小説家は寛容な人種なのか……。村上さんは小説家になった頃を振り返り、文学賞について、オリジナリティーについて深く考えます。さて、何を書けばいいのか?

TVアニメ化決定！

時間どろぼうと、ぬすまれた時間を人間にとりかえしてくれた女の子モモのふしぎな物語。人間本来の生き方を忘れてしまっている現代の人々に〈時間〉の真の意味を問う、エンデの名作。

独ソ戦が激化する1942年、モスクワ近郊の農村に暮らす少女セラフィマの日常は、突如として奪われた。急襲したドイツ軍によって、母親のエカチェリーナほか村人たちが惨殺されたのだ。

ダメダメな僕のもとに突然現れたゾウの神様“ガネーシャ”。 なぜか関西弁で話し、甘いものが大好きな大食漢。

国家、貨幣、企業……虚構が他人との協力を可能にし、文明をもたらした！

友情も恋愛もくだらないとのたまうひねくれ男

「人が死ぬのって、素敵よね」彼女は僕のすぐ耳もとでしゃべっていたので、その言葉はあたたかい湿った息と一緒に僕の体内にそっともぐりこんできた。

Three friends from small-town Pennsylvania set out to conquer Denali, North America's highest peak, but only two come down alive. On the mountain, their grand adventure unravels into a harrowing tale of survival, betrayal, and the haunting consequences of ambition pushed too far. For fans of Into Thin Air, Touching the Void, and 127 Hours, Denali has a full cast, jaw-dropping twists, and immersive sound design that will transport you to one of the most extreme environments on earth.

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

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.

Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

You think you know the truth about the people you love. But one discovery can change everything.... Eight-year-old Billy goes missing one day, out flying his kite with his sister Rose. Two days later he is found dead. Sixteen years on, Rose still blames herself for Billy's death. How could she have failed to protect her little brother? Rose has never fully recovered from the trauma, and one of the few people she trusts is her neighbour Ronnie, who she has known all her life.

Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the Terran Federation is waging against the Arachnids. Because everyone in the Mobile Infantry fights. And if the training doesn’t kill you, the Bugs are more than ready to finish the job.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

When Heather McKinley dreamed of becoming a doctor, she imagined curing sick kids and sporting pink stethoscopes. She never anticipated the sleepless nights, grueling exams, and endless labs. And she certainly never knew that her medical school earned the nickname Dead Med thanks to the tragic history of students overdosing on illegal drugs. But Heather would never consider doing anything like that. That is, until her longtime boyfriend dumps her, she finds herself failing anatomy, and her world starts to crumble.

ハリー・ポッターは孤児。意地悪な従兄にいじめられながら11歳の誕生日を迎えようとしたとき、ホグワーツ魔法学校からの入学許可証が届き、自分が魔法使いだと知る。キングズ・クロス駅、9と4分の3番線から紅色の汽車に乗り、ハリーは未知の世界へ。ハリーを待ち受けていたのは、夢と、冒険、友情、そして自分の生い立ちをめぐるミステリー。

Murasaki Shikibu, born into the middle ranks of the aristocracy during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), wrote The Tale of Genji, widely considered the world's first novel, during the early years of the 11th century. Expansive, compelling, and sophisticated in its representation of ethical concerns and aesthetic ideals, Murasaki's tale came to occupy a central place in Japan's remarkable history of artistic achievement and is now recognized as a masterpiece of world literature.

師となる漱石に絶賛された「鼻」から晩年の傑作「歯車」まで芥川龍之介が誇る短編小説の集大成が、ここに全97作品を収録

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――

ピンポイントで誰の何の作品を聴いたら良いかわからない、でも日本文学に興味がある、そういう声にお応えし、著名な作家・有名な作品を選びました。

The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthrals with its lively gossip, witty observations and subtle impressions. Lady Shōnagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shōnagon so eloquently relates.

船場の旧家、蒔岡家の四姉妹、鶴子、幸子、雪子、妙子。
父は既に他界し、蒔岡家の全盛は過ぎ、衰えつつあった。

長女の鶴子は婿入りの当主と本家で暮らし、

ひょっとしたら、と彼女は思う、世界は本当に終わりかけているのかもしれない。

This course includes Lessons 1-5 from the Japanese Level 1 program featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension and on learning to speak Japanese.

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