A passage to india - Blackcat - Level intermediete
Adela Quested visits India with Mrs Moore to decide whether to marry the latter’s son, Ronny. Obsessed with understanding the ‘real India’, the two women make friends with Dr Aziz who invites them to the mysterious Marabar caves
While exploring a cave, two boys divert the course of a stream and set off a strange chain of events. This was Thomas Hardy's one children's story, and the circumstances of its publication are at least as interesting as the story itself. Our Exploits at West Poley was written in 1883 for serial publication in the Youth's Companion and then, despite Hardy's amenability to cutting or other alteration ("possibly the story is too juvenile for your side of the sea")...
Книга представляет собой сборник детективных и приключенческих рассказов известнейших английских и американских писателей XIX-XX веков в адаптации Г.К.Магидсон-Степановой. Текст каждого рассказа снабжен комментарием; упражнения направлены на отработку лексики и грамматических структур, а также проверку понимания текста и развитие речевых навыков. В конце книги приводится словарь. Сборник предназначен для учащихся 7-9 классов средних школ, лицеев, гимназий, студентов I-II курсов неязыковых вузов.
`But it's bad - it's bad,' Mr Tulliver added - `a woman's no business wi' being so clever; it'll turn to trouble, I doubt.' Rebellious and affectionate, Maggie Tulliver is always in trouble. Recalling her own experiences as a girl, George Eliot describes Maggie's turbulent childhood with a sympathetic engagement that makes the early chapters of The Mill on the Floss among the most immediately attractive she ever wrote.
