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A comprehensive anthology of dramatisations and readings of Tagore's finest works, plus bonus documentaries Bengali polymath Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. A novelist, poet, playwright, composer, artist and philosopher, he wrote both the...

In one of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, Edward P. Jones, two-time National Book Award finalist, tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under the tutelage of William Robbins, the most powerful man in Manchester County, Virginia. Making certain...

In an isolated village high in the Armenian mountains, a close-knit community bickers, gossips, and laughs. Their only connection to the outside world is an ancient telegraph wire and a perilous mountain road that even goats struggle to navigate. As they go about their daily lives - harvesting crops, making baklava - the villagers sustain one another through good times and bad. But sometimes, all it takes is a spark of romance to turn life on its head, and a plot to bring two of Maran's most stubbornly single residents together soon gives the village something new to gossip about....

Italy, 1943. The girl rushes down the winding streets, tucking the handwritten menu into the wicker basket and thinking only of the code hidden on the delicate paper. Present day. Arriving in Caccipulia, Callie grips the faded restaurant menu. Found hidden in her family home, she is certain it will lead her to the truth about her grandmother's life in Italy during World War II. Local café owner Oliver's eyes light up when he sees the menu. During the war, one brave family secretly fed desperate Jewish families. Callie's heart soars at the thought that her grandmother was involved.

Hailed by the Washington Post Book World as a modern classic, Robertson Davies' acclaimed Deptford Trilogy is a glittering, fantastical, cunningly contrived series of novels, around which a mysterious death is woven. World of Wonders, the third book in the series after The Manticore, follows the story of Magnus Eisengrim - the most illustrious magician of his age - who is spirited away from his home by a member of a traveling sideshow, the Wanless World of Wonders.

Cabrera Infante's masterpiece, Three Trapped Tigers is one of the most playful books to reach the US from Cuba. Filled with puns, wordplay, lists upon lists, and Sternean typography - such as the section entitled "Some Revelations", which consists of several blank minutes - this novel has been praised as a more modern, sexier, funnier, Cuban Ulysses.

When Madan’s father's misdeeds jeopardize his sister's life, Madan strikes his first bargain with Avtaar Singh to save her. Drawn into Avtaar Singh's violent world, Madan becomes his son in every way but by blood. Suddenly it looks as if everything will change for Madan and his family until a forbidden love affair has brutal consequences and he is forced to leave behind all that is dear to him.

Set in an upper-middle-class Tel Aviv apartment building, this best-selling and warmly acclaimed Israeli novel examines the interconnected lives of its residents, whose turmoils, secrets, unreliable confessions, and problematic decisions reveal a society in the midst of an identity crisis.

The year is 1928. On the outskirts of a large German city, three young men are earning a thin and precarious living. Fully armed young storm troopers swagger in the streets. Restlessness, poverty, and violence are everywhere. For these three, friendship is the only refuge from the chaos around them. Then the youngest of them falls in love and brings into the group a young woman who will become a comrade as well, as they are all tested in ways they can have never imagined.

【解説】 太宰治の名作シリーズの第3として、５編を収録。 若い一人称独白小説のスタイル確立の先がけとなった「女生徒」。若い女子学生の感覚、心理、生理を その細かい襞まで描いている。 甲府盆地の猛烈な暑さによる汗疹を治す妻に誘われ、太宰は温浴場に出かけた先で出会った「美少女」。縁遠かった主人公が、小卒で離婚歴のある図案工と結婚し仲睦まじく暮らしていたが、吹き出物がポツっとできたことをきっかけに広がる不安と嫉妬を巧みに描く「皮膚と心」。 大学教授の娘の「私」が、小説家戸田さんの作品を現実のもとと勘違いして押しかけ大恥をかく抱腹絶倒の「恥」。若松屋の女中・トシちゃんは、しったかぶりの文学好きだが、粗相をし馬鹿にされていたが、その粗相の背後に、ある事情があったことが最後にわかる「眉山」。 【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。

Book 3: The New World: In the days of the Comet in 1906 is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is exalted when a comet causes the nitrogen of the air, the old azote, to change out of itself and become a respirable gas, differing indeed from oxygen, but helping and sustaining its action, a bath of strength and healing for nerve and brain. The result The great Change has come for evermore, happiness and beauty are our atmosphere, there is peace on earth and good will to all men.

From Argentina to Italy, the intense, metaphysical and poetic story of a gardener in love, by Italy's most prominent writer. "A man's life lasts as long as three horses. You have already buried the first." Somewhere along the coastline of Italy, a man passes his days in solitude and silence, tending a garden and reading books of travel and adventure.

Los Angeles, 1986. A group of right-wing Christians has put an initiative on the November ballot to allow health officials to force people with HIV into quarantine camps - and it looks like it’s going to pass. Rios, now living in LA, agrees to be counsel for a group of young activists who call themselves QUEER. QUEER claims to be committed to peaceful civil disobedience. But when one of its members is implicated in the bombing of an evangelical church that kills its pastor, Rios finds himself with a client suddenly facing the death penalty.

It's 1894. Jordan Wallace and Sadie Wagner appear to have little in common. Jordan, a middle-aged black teacher, lives in segregated Chicago. Two thousand miles away, Sadie, the white wife of an ambitious German businessman, lives in more tolerant Oakland, California. But years ago, their families intertwined on a plantation in Virginia. There, Jordan's and Sadie's mothers developed a bond stronger than blood, despite the fact that one was enslaved and the other was the privileged daughter of the plantation’s owner.

Nació en Valencia el 29 de enero de 1867, se graduó en derecho en 1888. Vicente Blasco Ibáñez dividió su vida entre la política, la literatura y el amor a las mujeres. Escribía con inusitada rapidez. Quiso que su vida fuera su mejor novela, y lo logró. Fundó el diario El Pueblo en Valencia, fue varias veces diputado a Cortes y se batió en duelo en reiteradas ocasiones. En uno de estos desafíos estuvo a punto de perder la vida, la bala le dio en la hebilla del cinturón, gracias a lo cual se salvó. Tuvo amores tormentosos.

【解説】 「津軽」は、太宰の故郷訪問記。ある年(注:昭和19年)の春、私は、生まれ故郷の金木のある津軽半島を三週間かけて訪問した。蟹田での中学時代の唯一の友人N君からの歓待、T君とその友人らと観瀾山に登っての志賀直哉談義、Sさんのお家に招かれての疾風怒濤のような津軽らしい歓待ぶり、竜飛崎の凄愴な光景と巡ったのち、生家にたどり着く。長兄、次兄らとの対面には気疲れするが、嫂、姪、祖母らと再会できた。そしていよいよ、幼少の頃、子守として育ててくれたたけとの再会のために深浦に向かう。30年ぶりに念願の再会を果たし、私はたけの子だと改めてつくづく思うのであった（なお、朗読テキストは、響林社のサイトにてダウンロードできます(無料)。 変人で無精者の小説家の兄、妊娠している嫂と3人暮らしの「私」の家での、深々と雪が降る夜の他愛もないがほのぼのとした「雪の夜の話」。...

「下町」は、終戦後、良人がシベリア抑留からまだ戻らないリヨが、幼い子供を連れてお茶の行商する際に知り合った気さくな鶴吉との交情を描く。休暇の日、浅草に3人で遊びに行ったところ、急な雨で宿屋に泊ることになったのだが・・・。「旅情の海」は、人柄が良く前向きな「民間飛行家の志田さん」に焦点を当てたもの。自分で作った飛行場を軍に接収されたことを契機に旅に出た時に出会った、終戦で親に捨てられた純真な少年に心打たれ、彼を引き取ることなった・・・。ともに、戦争と平和について考えさせる小品の佳作。

Hiru mosketariak, Alexandre Dumasen eleberri historiko ospetsuenetako bat, 1844an atalka argitaratu zen lehendabiziko aldiz. Istorioa XVII. mende hasierako Frantzian kokatuta dago, eta bertan errealitatea eta fikzioa, hots, benetako gertaerak eta pertsonaia historikoak idazlearen irudimenetik sortutako heroi eta bilauekin nahasten dira. Eleberri bizi honek zenbait gertaera historikoren oinarrian ezinikusiak, maitasuna eta bekaizkeria daudela erakusten du.