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Упражнение №47

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John Griffith "Jack" London was born on 12 January 1876 in San Francisco. His mother, Flora Wellman, lived in Ohio but then moved to San Francisco where she worked as a music teacher. It also known that she was interested in spiritualism. Some biographers suppose that Jack London’s father was William Chaney who lived with Flora Wellman in San Francisco. It is not known if Flora and William were legally married. The house where Jack London spent his childhood was destroyed after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

In 1885 London read Ouida's long Victorian novel Signa. Jack London maintained that this book was the beginning of his literary career. In 1886 he became acquainted with Ina Coolbrith who was a librarian in the Oakland Public Library. She encouraged London’s learning.

In 1889 he started working at Hickmott’s Cannery. His working day lasted 12 to 18 hours. Afterwards Jack London bought the sloop Razzle-Dazzle and became an oyster pirate. After a while he came to Oakland and entered Oakland High School where he

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started writing articles for the school’s magazine, The Aegis. The first work of London was “Typhoon off the Coast of Japan” in which he described his sailing experiences.

In 1896 Jack London entered the University of California, Berkeley but because of financial difficulties he left the university in a year. Jack London spent a lot of time at Heinold’s saloon where he met Alexander McLean. He was a cruel captain whom the character Wolf Larsen in London’s novel is based.

At the age of 21 Jack London joined the Klondike Gold Rush. This period of life was a basis for some of his popular stories but his health declined there. As a result London had the scurvy. All the events in the Klondike were an incitement for him to write a short story “To Build a Fire” which is considered one of his best.

From 1898 Jack London started working intentionally to publish his writings. The first published work was “To the Man on Trail”. When London began his literary career the new printing technologies appeared. Consequently popular magazines became available for many people and in 1900 he could earn $2,500. In 1903 The Saturday Evening Post bought London’s work The call of the Wild for $750. In addition to that he sold the book rights to Macmillan for $2,000 and as a result London achieved a swift success. When London lived in Oakland he became acquainted with poet George Sterling who became his best friend. Sterling was

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described in London’s autobiographical novel Martin Eden as Russ Brissenden.

Jack London’s first marriage was in 1900. He married Elizabeth “Bessie” Maddern with whom he had two children: Joan and Bessie (later called Becky). But they divorced and London married Charmian Kittredge in 1905. They didn’t have children because the first child died at birth and the second pregnancy ended in a miscarriage.

Jack London died November 22, 1916. There are a lot of different suppositions about London’s death. Some people consider that he could commit a suicide but his death certificate gives the cause as uremia. His ashes were interred in Jack London State Historic Park, in Glen Ellen, California.

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Упражнение №48

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1.A man is smoking now.

2.Mother wax sleeping several minutes

ago.

3.Several small boys were seen together yesterday.

4.My old-dried lamp and time-be wasted light. Shall be extinct with age and endless night.

5.Sweet rose, fair flower, untimely pluck's soon vided. Pluck's in the bud, and vided in the spring.

6.Ah foolish old man, I scorner thy skill. That wouldest me, my springing young to spill.

7.Two households, both alike in dignity. In fair Verona, where we lay our scene. From ancient grudge break to new mutiny.

8.Intends our Muse to vaunt his heavenly verse. Only this, gentlemen, we must perform. The form of Farstus' fortune, good or bad.

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9.Our own brains, and the opinion that we bring. To make that only true we now intend. Will live us never an understanding friend.

10.Ah, fair Leno crate, divine Leno crate. Fair is too foul an epithet for thee.

11.I am before knows me. I know you are my eldest brother.

Упражнение №49

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1.So beauty on the waters stood. When love have severed earth from blood!

2.Meet you for this, proud over daring

peers.

3.His overanxious face in foggy cloud imp lyses.

4.To hear, to mediate, sweeten my supernal entire. O, then how blessed.

5.Have passed the army of the mighty Turk. Bearing his privy signet and his hand. To save conduct us through Africa.

6.Or, who's unskillful at the quoits, or ball. Or trundling, he can sit still, from all.

7.No, no, I trust on thee, and joy in thy

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Great pity. Still therefore of thy graces shall be my songs' ditty.

8. He entered well, by writes parts. Got up and thrived with honest art. He purchased friends, and fame, and honors then.

Упражнение №50

Прочитайте фрагмент сказки Ганса Христиана Андерсена «Снежная королева» и наберите его, при этом смотрите только в книгу.

Story the First,

Which Describes a Looking-Glass and the Broken Fragments.

You must attend to the commencement of this story, for when we get to the end we shall know more than we do now about a very wicked hobgoblin; he was one of the very worst, for he was a real demon. One day, when he was in a merry mood, he made a looking-glass which had the power of making everything good or beautiful that was reflected in it almost shrink to nothing, while everything that was worthless and bad looked increased in size and worse than ever. The most lovely landscapes appeared like boiled spinach, and the people became hideous, and looked as if they stood on their heads and had no bodies. Their countenances were so distorted that no one could recognize them, and even one freckle on the face appeared to spread

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over the whole of the nose and mouth. The demon said this was very amusing. When a good or pious thought passed through the mind of any one it was misrepresented in the glass; and then how the demon laughed at his cunning invention. All who went to the demon’s school– for he kept a school– talked everywhere of the wonders they had seen, and declared that people could now, for the first time, see what the world and mankind were really like. They carried the glass about everywhere, till at last there was not a land nor a people who had not been looked at through this distorted mirror. They wanted even to fly with it up to heaven to see the angels, but the higher they flew the more slippery the glass became, and they could scarcely hold it, till at last it slipped from their hands, fell to the earth, and was broken into millions of pieces. But now the looking-glass caused more unhappiness than ever, for some of the fragments were not so large as a grain of sand, and they flew about the world into every country. When one of these tiny atoms flew into a person’s eye, it stuck there unknown to him, and from that moment he saw everything through a distorted medium, or could see only the worst side of what he looked at, for even the smallest fragment retained the same power which had belonged to the whole mirror. Some few persons even got a fragment of the lookingglass in their hearts, and this was very terrible, for their hearts became cold like a lump of ice.

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A few of the pieces were so large that they could be used as window-panes; it would have been a sad thing to look at our friends through them. Other pieces were made into spectacles; this was dreadful for those who wore them, for they could see nothing either rightly or justly. At all this the wicked demon laughed till his sides shook– it tickled him so to see the mischief he had done. There were still a number of these little fragments of glass floating about in the air, and now you shall hear what happened with one of them.

Упражнение №51

Прочитайте текст классика английской литературы Оскара Уальда и напечатайте его, разбив на несколько фрагментов удобным для вас образом. При этом смотрите только в книгу.

THE HAPPY PRINCE

by Oscar Wilde

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.

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He was very much admired indeed. «He is as beautiful as a weathercock,» remarked one of the Town Councillors who wished to gain a reputation for having artistic tastes; «only not quite so useful,» he added, fearing lest people should think him unpractical, which he really was not.

«Why can't you be like the Happy Prince?» asked a sensible mother of her little boy who was crying for the moon. «The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.»

«I am glad there is some one in the world who is quite happy,» muttered a disappointed man as he gazed at the wonderful statue. «He looks just like an angel,» said the Charity Children as they came out of the cathedral in their bright scarlet cloaks and their clean white pinafores.

«How do you know?» said the Mathematical Master, «you have never seen one.»

«Ah! but we have, in our dreams,» answered the children; and the Mathematical Master frowned and looked very severe, for he did not approve of children dreaming.

One night there flew over the city a little Swallow. His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed. He had met her early in the spring as he was flying down the river after a big yellow moth, and had been

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so attracted by her slender waist that he had stopped to talk to her.

«Shall I love you?» said the Swallow, who liked to come to the point at once, and the Reed made him a low bow. So he flew round and round her, touching the water with his wings, and making silver ripples. This was his courtship, and it lasted all through the summer.

«It is a ridiculous attachment,» twittered the other Swallows; «she has no money, and far too many relations»; and indeed the river was quite full of Reeds. Then, when the autumn came they all flew away.

After they had gone he felt lonely, and began to tire of his lady – love. «She has no conversation,» he said, «and I am afraid that she is a coquette, for she is always flirting with the wind.» And certainly, whenever the wind blew, the Reed made the most graceful curtseys. «I admit that she is domestic,» he continued, «but I love travelling, and my wife, consequently, should love travelling also.»

«Will you come away with me?» he said finally to her; but the Reed shook her head, she was so attached to her home.

«You have been trifling with me,» he cried. «I am off to the Pyramids. Good-bye!» and he flew away.

After they had gone he felt lonely, and began to tire of his lady-love. "She has no conversation," he said, "and I am afraid that she is a coquette,