Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories / Р. Киплинг - Маленькие истории [ Английский клуб
Книга знакомит читателя с творчеством известного английского писателя Джозефа Редьярда Киплинга (1865-1936). Путешествуя по разным странам, в 1899 году он провел несколько месяцев в Южной Африке, где собрал материал для новой детской книги, которая вышла в свет в 1902 году под названием "Маленькие сказки".
Текст сказок адаптирован с учетом уровня владения языком учащихся 5-6 классов школ, гимназий, лицеев. Книга снабжена комментарием и упражнениями, направленными на проверку понимания текста, отработку лексики, грамматических структур, а также развитие навыков устной речи.
“The wrong thing” story. With Mr Springett, the village builder, Dan meets Sir Harry Dawe, the great master mason of Tudor times, who he had first encountered the previous year. He tells a story of his pride in his work, and the hatred between him and another craftsman, Benedetto, who was jealous of his skills. In his pride, Hal has made a painting to decorate one of the King’s ships ‘all in a heat after supper’, but it is not a good piece of work; it is the ‘wrong thing’ of the title.
Kim, a young Irish boy, lives alone on the streets of the Indian city of Lahore. He meets an old Tibetan lama who is looking for a sacred river. The boy and the old man become great friends and travel across British India. This is Rudyard Kipling's greatest book - a story about the British empire, spies, friendship, spirituality and, most of all, India.
This volume examines the great novelists and story-writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries: from Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde through Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling on to E.M. Forster.
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