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.

Essentially the start of Dazai's career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the struggle of the individual against them—a theme that occupied Dazai's life both personally and professionally. This new translation preserves the playful language of the original and offers the listener a new window into the mind of one of the greatest Japanese authors of the 20th century.

Prince Lyov Nikolayevitch Myshkin is one of the great characters in Russian literature. Is he a saint or just naïve? Is he an idealist or, as many in General Epanchin's society feel, an "idiot"? Certainly his return to St. Petersburg after years in a Swiss clinic has a dramatic effect on the beautiful Aglaia, youngest of the Epanchin daughters, and on the charismatic but willful Nastasya Filippovna. As he paints a vivid picture of Russian society, Dostoyevsky shows how principles conflict with emotions - with tragic results.

異国で身を立てるため勉学に励む青年と、父を亡くした貧しい娘の悲恋が、いま蘇る。

明治から大正にかけて活躍した文豪・森鴎外の初期の代表作を、
高雅な文体をそのままに、音声でお届けします。


政府からの指示で5年前からドイツ・ベルリンへ留学していた主人公・太田豊太郎は、
ドイツ語やフランス語を学び、政治学を修めようとしていました。

幼いころに亡くした父の遺言と母の教えを守り、
ヨーロッパの華やかさに目もくれず、心を動かすまいという固い決意を持って勉学に励んでいた彼は、
ある時、エリスという女性に出会います。

エリスは劇団に所属していましたが、その生活はひどく貧しいものでした。
父の葬儀代が出せないという彼女の窮状を、豊太郎が救ったことをきっかけに、
二人は惹かれあい、交際を始めます。

しかし2人を待っていたのは、全く異なる身の上ゆえに容赦なく降りかかる、様々な困難でした。

いつしか豊太郎は、政府の留学生としての自分の居場所と、
エリスとの関係を天秤にかけざるを得ない状況に陥っていきます。

ドイツ・ベルリンで、二人は果たしてどのような道を歩むのか――

The publication in 1848 of The Communist Manifesto came at a time when industrialization was reaching its peak, and signs of the cost to the working class blatant; the Revolutions of 1848 were just getting under way. Marx and Engels shared the belief that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles" and this notion formed a central part of the manifesto they crafted together. They believed that industrialization was simply a new form of struggle among the classes - the price paid by the lower class still high.