Скачать книгу - In the Wonderful Land of Hez: or, The Mystery of the Fountain of Youth

Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum Chicago, April, 1900.

В предлагаемый сборник вошли самые известные английские народные сказки («Том Тит Тот», «Джек и бобовый стебель» и др.), а также сказки «Алиса в стране чудес» Л. Кэрролла и «Удивительный волшебник из страны Оз» Л.Ф. Баума. Для удобства читателя книга содержит комментарии, краткие словарики к каждому разделу и разные виды упражнений. Предназначается для начинающих изучать английский язык (уровень 1 – Elementary).

«Удивительный волшебник из страны Оз» – знаменитая сказка, на основе которой замечательный детский писатель А. М. Волков написал повесть «Волшебник Изумрудного города». Текст произведения сокращен и адаптирован для уровня 1 (для начинающих учить английский язык), а также снабжен комментариями. В конце книги даны упражнения и словарь.

This novel is narrated by John Fothergill West, who tries to discover why the tenant of Cloomber Hall, General Heatherstone, is nervous to the point of being paranoid. Why are his fears becoming stronger every year at the fifth of October? And why doesn't he let his children leave home? This is a great mystery novel with a sharp twist at the end.

Tales of Terror and Mystery is a collection of Arthur Conan Doyle stories including: Tales of Terror: "The Horror of the Heights", "The Leather Funnel", "The New Catacomb", "The Case of Lady Sannox", "The Terror of Blue John Gap", "The Brazilian Cat". Tales of Mystery: "The Lost Special", "The Beetle-Hunter", "The Man with the Watches", "The Japanned Box", "The Black Doctor", "The Jew's Breastplate".