The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship. The Pequod sails under the command of the one-legged Captain Ahab, who has set himself on a monomaniacal quest to capture the cunning white whale that robbed him of his leg: Moby-Dick. Capturing life on the sea with robust realism, Melville details the adventures of the colorful crew aboard the ship as Ahab pursues his crusade of revenge, heedless of all cost.

聖書は多くの人の手によって書かれた、神と人間との歴史における出会いの物語です。今から3000年ほど前の紀元前10世紀頃にその最も古い部分が書かれ、紀元後2世紀に最後の書が書かれました。

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them - for a price.

The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize-winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia.

The Odyssey is the greatest adventure story ever written, and one of the great epic masterpieces of Western literature For almost 3,000 years, it has been a storehouse of ancient Greek folklore and myth. It is also our very first novel, if we think of it in terms of romantic plot development, realistic characterizations, frequent change of scene, and heroic dramatic devices.

「世の中に能ぐらい面白くないシン気臭い芸術はない。（略）鼻の詰まったようなイキンだ掛け声をしながら、間の抜けた拍子で鼓や太鼓をタタク。それに連れて煤すすけたお面を冠った、奇妙な着物を着た人間が、ノロマが蜘蛛くもの巣を取るような恰好でソロリソロリとホツキ歩くのだからトテモ退屈で見ていられない。」 ——でも、「たまらなくそそる」のだ！ きちんと説明するからひとまず聞いてくれ・・・ 『ドグラ・マグラ』をはじめ怪奇談などを得意とした夢野久作が、外国人に、能とはなにかを教えるために書いた作品です。同時刊行の『風姿花伝』と併せて聞いてもらいたい作品です。『風姿花伝』が奥義書であるのに比して、本作は入門書にあたります。

新型コロナウイルスのパンデミックに始まり、「敗北宣言」無き異例の大統領選で幕を閉じた2020年。激動の一年の重要な出来事をVOA（米国国営放送）発信のニュースで振り返ります。

A natural storyteller and raconteur in his own right - just listen to Paddle Your Own Canoe and Gumption - actor, comedian, carpenter, and all-around manly man Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) brings his distinctive baritone and a fine-tuned comic versatility to Twain's writing. In a knockout performance, he doesn't so much as read Twain's words as he does rejoice in them, delighting in the hijinks of Tom - whom he lovingly refers to as a "great scam artist" and "true American hero".

When The Sandman, also known as Lord Morpheus - the immortal king of dreams, stories and the imagination - is pulled from his realm and imprisoned on Earth by a nefarious cult, he languishes for decades before finally escaping. Once free, he must retrieve the three “tools” that will restore his power and help him to rebuild his dominion, which has deteriorated in his absence.

One of the greatest works in literature, Dante's story-poem is an allegory that represents mankind as it exposes itself, by its merits or demerits, to the rewards or the punishments of justice. A single listen will reveal Dante's visual imagination and uncanny power to make the spiritual visible.