The stories by well-known English and American authors with their exciting plots and fascinating narration make interesting and helpful reading for students as well as for all those who are fond of English books.
This short story from Joseph Conrad is among his best. The man's head and shoulders emerged above the deck, over which were scattered various tools of his trade and a few pieces of machinery. He was doing some repairs to the engines. At the sound of our footsteps he raised anxiously a grimy face with a pointed chin and a tiny fair moustache. What could be seen of his delicate features under the black smudges appeared to me wasted and livid in the greenish shade of the enormous tree spreading its foliage over the launch moored close to the bank.
The manual describes the author's system of words in blocks of harmony, as well as the classification of words meaning a minimum of English. This system allows not only easy to learn to read and memorize the words, but also develop the ability to create their own sound and semantic association, that is an integral part of thinking in English.
Beginning in a small village under Japanese occupation on the Chinese-Russian border in the final days of World War II, this is the story of a White Russian mother and daughter, separated by war.
"They sat for a while, engulfed by sunlight, cool air and silence. A raven planed down from the rim, circled around a cottonwood, landed on a Russian olive across the canyon floor and perched, waiting for them to die."
