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.

Being a kid can really stink. And no one knows this better than Greg Heffley, who finds himself thrust into middle school, where undersized weaklings share the hallways with kids who are taller, meaner, and already shaving. In Diary of a Wimpy Kid, author and illustrator Jeff Kinney introduces us to an unlikely hero. As Greg says in his diary: Just don't expect me to be all "Dear Diary" this and "Dear Diary" that. Luckily for us, what Greg Heffley says he won’t do and what he actually does are two very different things.

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

「泣ける・心に響く」味わい深い20の物語をあなたに!■英語圏、特に欧米で読まれ続けている物語です。/初級レベルの易しい英文で書かれた物語ですので、必ず最後まで聞き通せるはずです! ■使用語彙は初級3000語レベルの英単語がベース/物語をより読みやすくするため、アルクの「標準語彙水準12000」に基づき、レベル1~3(初級レベル)の英単語を中心に構成されています。※本商品は書籍に付属のCD音声と同内容です。また、テキスト情報は含まれておりません。◇対象レベル:初級以上(英検3級/TOEICテスト400程度)

あの夏目漱石の名作『吾輩は猫である』のストーリーが、たった1時間半で分かる！

忙しくて名作をじっくり読む時間がない・・・というあなたでも大丈夫！
短い時間で流れを理解し、作品の新たな魅力を感じていただけるオーディオブックです。


「吾輩は猫である。名前はまだ無い。」

この有名な文章から始まる夏目漱石の名作『吾輩は猫である』。
あなたは、この作品の原文を読破したことがあるでしょうか？

「タイトルは知っているけれど、本文は読んだことがない」
「前に読んでみたけれど忘れてしまった」
「途中で読むのをあきらめた・・・」

このように、興味はあるけれど読む時間がない、という方のために、
わずか90分で作品の流れを理解できる抄訳版オーディオブックを制作いたしました。

作品に一度触れたことのある方もそうでない方も、このオーディオブックをお聴きいただければ、
物語の魅力を十分に味わっていただけることと思います。

名もない猫がその後どんなことを経験し、物語はどのような方向へ進んでいくのか。
そして、猫の目から見た人間社会と、それを語る猫の人物像（猫像？）はいったいどのよう

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.

In a poem about a Mama Fox's unconditional love for her cub, this story describes the many moods of all children - from happy to frightened, bashful to silly, and more - and will reassure them of their parents' abiding affection and approval.

The correspondence between Carrie Allsop and David Mayer reveals, piece by piece, the painful details of a devastating affair between their spouses. With each commiserating scratch of the pen, they confess their fears and bare their souls. They share the bewilderment over how things went so wrong and come to wonder where to go from here. Told entirely through the letters of two comforting strangers and those of two illicit lovers, Evidence of the Affair explores the complex nature of the heart. And ultimately, for one woman, how liberating it can be when it’s broken.

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.

Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst - murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth - Liam may have done the unthinkable.

E. H. Gombrich's world history, an international best seller now available in English for the first time, is a text dominated not by dates and facts but by the sweep of experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements, and an acute witness to its frailties.

The Metamorphosis is one of the most commonly referenced books when you talk about absurd literature. It is heralded as a masterpiece of the existential literature genre because of how it demands the reader to accept the absurdity of the world just as it is. Although some of the events of the story are fantastical in nature, the ideas it conveys about existence, the meaning of life, and humanity are relatable to us in the real world, too.

ストーリを英語のまま味わえ、幅広い世代に支持されている「ちょっといい話」シリーズ。本書では、大ヒット商品の誕生秘話から発展途上国の子どもたちへの支援事業まで、数多くの仕事から、「やる気の出る話」17編を厳選しました。

■さまざまな国・時代・業種の話を厳選
さまざまな国・時代・業種の仕事の話の中から、前向きな気持ちになる話を厳選しました。「努力」「信念」「工夫」「思いやり」…。本書では、成功よりも、それを支えた人に焦点を合わせて紹介します。

■初級レベルの英単語と基本的な構文がベース
初級3000語レベルの英単語（＊）と基本的な構文をベースにリライトしています。やさしい英文なので、英語そのままで理解できます。＊アルクの「標準語彙水準12000」（SVL[Standard Vocabulary List]12000）のレベル1～3を指します。

●対象レベル：英検準2級／TOEIC(R)テスト470点程度
●特典音声つき（MP3）
（1）「このストーリーのポイント」の音声全17ファイル
（2）書籍未収録の物語３編「Revolutionary Mompreneurs（業界を変えた起業家ママ）」「Apollo Hospitals（アポロ病院）」「The World of...

Like it or not, global warming is a hot topic, and it will affect the younger generation the most. So why not turn to the teacher kids like the most, Ms. Frizzle! Only the Friz can boil all the hoopla down to the scientific facts in a fun and informative way. Kids already love the Magic School Bus, and the love to do what's right by the planet. At last, a way to teach the curriculum and make an impact!

「英語ニュース リスニング道場 120」シリーズ（Month 1～6）は、1分程度に短くまとめた国内や海外のニュースを学習材料として、知的な刺激を失わずに、無理なく英語力が高められるよう工夫されたリスニング教材です。 本コンテンツは、その中のMonth5の音声を収録しています。 各Month には社会、経済、産業、政治、科学、スポーツ、文化など幅広い分野から選ばれた20本のニュースが収録されています。 各ニュースとも、語彙、情報量、そしてスピードの観点から2 つのレベル（レベル1：70～90ワード／分、レベル2：100～120 ワード／分）の音声が用意されており、学習効果を高めるために、レベル2⇒レベル1⇒レベル2 の順番で収録されています。

本書はシリーズ中の『英語で泣ける ちょっといい話』『英語で泣ける ちょっといい話2』『英語で心いやされる ちょっといい話』『英語で元気が出る ちょっといい話』『英語でやる気が出る仕事の話』

公開テストを毎回受験し、出題傾向を熟知するTOEICのカリスマ講師が厳選した150問をアトランダムに並べました。基本、頻出、難問など、さまざまな問題が出てくるので、解いてくうちにメキメキ実力がつきます。「1日1分レッスン!新TOEIC TEST千本ノック!3」の全英文を、ネイティブスピーカーが朗読した、このオーディオブックを利用すればリスニング対策もバッチリです。(祥伝社黄金文庫) (C)祥伝社

Eight-year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of 16, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

One morning, traveling salesman Gregor Samsa wakes from an anxious dream to discover that he has inexplicably changed into a monstrous insect. Nonetheless, life goes on, and poor Gregor is left to deal not only with the existential questions of who or what he now is but also with more mundane concerns: his job (which he fears he’ll lose), his loved ones (whom he fears he disgusts), and the daily indignities of everyday life (which continue apace). Soon, even those who sympathize with his bizarre predicament begin to lose their patience....