Expulso do orfanato e prestes a morrer de fome, Atsushi Nakajima conhece alguns homens bastante estranhos. Um deles, Osamu Dazai, é um suicida que se tenta afogar em plena luz do dia. Outro, chamado Doppo Kunikida, fica parado, a folhear nervosamente o seu bloco de anotações. Ambos são membros da Agência de Detetives Armados e dizem ser responsáveis por solucionar casos que nem a polícia nem o exército ousam tocar. Atsushi acaba por acompanhá-los numa missão para eliminar um tigre que está a aterrorizar a população com o seu apetite por pessoas…
Oreki Houtarou é um estudante minimalista. Um dia, ele entra para o Clube de Literatura Clássica a pedido da sua irmã mais velha. Lá, conhece Chitanda Eru, uma rapariga bonita e calma, mas que se transforma na personificação da curiosidade quando diz: “Estou curiosa! (Watashi, kininarimasu!)”. Fukube Satoshi é o melhor amigo de Houtarou e um rapaz alegre com uma memória fantástica, apelidando-se de base de dados. Ibara Mayaka é uma rapariga pequena e rigorosa com os outros e consigo mesma. Os quatro começam a investigar um caso que ocorreu há 33 anos, onde as pistas do mistério se encontram enterradas numa colecção antiga de trabalhos dos antigos membros do Clube de Literatura Clássica. Essa colecção chama-se “Hyouka”.
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.
Aoi Bungaku consiste na adaptação de seis clássicos da literatura japonesa: Ningen Shikkaku, Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita, Kokoro, Hashire, Melos!, Kumo no Ito e Jigoku Hen
The trials and tribulations of 108 outlaws during the mid Song Dynasty.
What the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and Sue Perkins and Chris Addison for the second and third. It is recorded at Sky Studios in West London.
The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood.
A dreamy seamstress and mother of three's life is turned upside down when she's wrongly diagnosed with a terminal disease along with an actually terminally ill wealthy book publisher.
John Green teaches you literature in an exciting, entertaining, and endlessly informative manner.
The publication of a new dictionary titled The Great Passage progresses. Mitsuya Majime, originally from publisher Genbu Shobo's sales department, has been recruited by Kouhei Araki, a veteran editor of the dictionary department who is looking to retire soon. The dictionary department is known internally as the "money-eating insect," but Mitsuya uses his perseverance and attachment to the words in order to become a great editor. Mitsuya, who has poor social skills, finds himself working with another man named Masashi Nishioka, who is able to express himself better.
Wishbone is a children's television show. The show's title character is a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas. He daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature He was known as "the little dog with a big imagination". Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak. The characters from his daydreams see Wishbone as whatever famous character he is currently portraying and not as a dog.
A modern Ichabod Crane teams up with the famed ghost of legend, The Headless Horseman, in order to find the Horseman’s lost head.
At first glance Yukishiro Nanako seems like a normal high school girl, but she has a notable eccentricity: instead of speaking, she communicates only through written senryu poetry! This means she expresses herself only in 5-7-5 syllables. To most this might seem like an inconvenience, but for Nanako and her ex-delinquent bestie, Busujima Eiji, it adds to the experience of their high school lives as they run the Literature Club.
When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more...adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy grass and pork stew, crushing on the boy next door, and knowing you want to do that one thing before you die--discovering your budding sexuality is no easy feat! As if puberty wasn't awkward enough, the club consists of a brooding writer, the prettiest girl in school, an agreeable comrade, and an outspoken prude. Fumbling over their own discomforts, these five teens get thrown into chaos over three little letters: S...E...X...!
