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Книга для чтения в VI-VII классах
школ с углубленным изучением
английского языка
Адаптация, комментарий и словарь
Н. Л. Утевской
Второе издание, переработанное
Антология
Санкт-Петербург
ROBERT
of schools specializing in English
Adaptation, commentary and vocabulary
LOUIS
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(after C. O. Peare)
For VI-VII forms
by N. L. Utevskaya
Revised second edition
STEVENSON
IS LIFE
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Anthology
Saint Petersburg
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Жизнь Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона/Адаптация,
комментарий и словарь Н. Л. Утевская: Учебное пособие книга для чтения на английском языке.
СПб.: Антология, 2021. 192 с.
ISBN 5-94962-039-9
ÁÁÊ 81.2Àíãë.
ISBN 5-94962-039-9
© Утевская Н. Л., 2021
© ООО «Антологияµ», 2021
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РЕДИСЛОВИЕ
Роберт Льюис Стивенсон (18501894) был сыном инженера, специалиста по маякам. Шотландец
по происхождению, он родился и получил образование в Эдинбурге. Хотя отец предполагал, что Роберт будет продолжать его профессию, будущий писатель предпочел изучать юриспруденцию. Однако с
юных лет его интересовала литература.
Слабое состояние здоровья, предрасположение к
туберкулезу вызывали необходимость перемены климата, и Стивенсон подолгу жил то во Франции, то в
Калифорнии.
Последние годы жизни Стивенсон провел на островах Тихого океана. Он принимал большое участие в
судьбе туземного населения островов Тихого океана.
Первые произведения Стивенсона принадлежали
к жанру очерка. Уже в этих произведениях Стивенсон
показал себя мастером изящного литературного стиля.
Он писал также романы,
тров сокровищ» (1883) завоевал ему широкую известность. Следующие его романы «Похищенный» (1886),
«Катриона» (1893), «Владелец Балантрэ», «Странная
история доктора Джекила и мистера Хайда» и другие
были также очень популярны у читателей. Главное
внимание Стивенсон обращает на изобретение фабулы и интересных ситуаций.
В людях он ценил мужество, энергию, честность
и верность.
уже первый из которых «Ос-
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В основу предлагаемой вниманию читателей книги положен адаптированный вариант повести английской писательницы Кэтрин Оуэнз Пиар (Catherine
Owens Peare), в которой подробно и увлекательно
рассказывается о жизненном и творческом пути замечательного английского писателя Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона.
В книге также даны отрывки из романов «Остров сокровищ», «Черная стрела», «Похищенный» и
стихотворения из сборника «Детский цветник стихов».
После каждой главы предлагаются вопросы и разнообразные задания для контроля понимания прочитанного, а в конце книги имеются темы для обсуждения помещенного в ней материала, англо-русский
словарь и списки имен собственных и географических названий.
Chapter I
C
UMMY
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light,
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
(Bed in Summer)
A young lady in a bonnet and shawl and a long
skirt rode along Howard Place in an open carriage.
She leaned out to watch the numbers on the houses.
Every house in the row was the same except for its
number. Every house was made of grey stone, with a
door and two windows downstairs, three windows
upstairs, and a grey slate roof.
Stop here, she told the driver when they reached
Number Eight. He reined up his horse. His passenger
stepped out of the carriage with her bag in her hand,
opened the gate in the iron fence and walked up to the
front door.
Is this the Stevenson residence? she asked when
the door opened.
Yes, Mrs Stevenson answered. Are you Miss Alison
Cunningham?
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C. O. Peare
Yes.
Were so glad youre here. Do come in. My husband
will see to your trunk.
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Before Mrs Stevenson had time to give her a cup of
tea, Miss Cunningham said she wanted to see the baby
she had come to take care of. So Mrs Stevenson led her
upstairs to the nursery.
Miss Cunningham clasped her hands and sighed
when she saw Robert Louis Stevenson. He had fair
hair like his mother, and blue eyes.
How old is he? she asked.
Eighteen months, said his mother. He was born
in this very house on November 13, 1850.
The baby laughed and reached out to the visitor.
Miss Cunningham took him up in her arms.
Oh, I am going to love this position, she whispered
to the baby. I am going to love being your nurse.
From then on Alison Cunningham was much more
than his nurse. She was like a member of the family
almost for the rest of her life.
Cummy! Louis called her as soon as he could talk,
and from then on she was Cummy to everyone.
Mrs Stevenson wasnt very strong, Cummy soon
learned. That was why she needed someone else to
look after the baby. Mr Stevenson turned out to be the
robust member of the family. He was a lighthouse
engineer. His work kept him out in the fresh air a
great deal, and that gave him a healthy look.
But the climate of Scotland is often damp and cold
and windy. Everybody felt it from time to time. Even
in the city of Edinburgh, where the Stevensons lived,
there were days and days of grey skies and chill during
the summer, and snow and wind in the winter. Louis
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My husband will see to your trunk. Мой муж позаботится
о вашем чемодане.
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R
OBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
. HIS L
IFE
felt it most of all, because he grew frailer as he grew
older.
When he was two the Stevensons moved to a bigger
house at One Inverleith Terrace just a few doors
away from Eight Howard Place. Because it was bigger,
it was colder and full of drafts. There he had his first
serious sickness: the croup. Thomas and Margaret
Stevenson and Cummy watched over him while he
coughed and gasped. He was their only child. They
didnt want to lose him. They sighed with relief when
he recovered. But it wasnt for long. From then on
every winter saw Louis in bed with something colds,
coughs, even pneumonia.
Cummy had to keep him indoors for days at a time
to clear up a cold.
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He sat in bed wrapped up in a big
shawl while Cummy read to him. If it was Sunday, she
read to him from the Bible. When he was well enough
to get out of bed, he lay on his stomach on the nursery
floor, painting water-colour pictures or drawing. One
day his mother came into the nursery and he asked:
Mama, I have drawn a man. Shall I draw his soul
now?
When Louis was sick, it wasnt always the fault of
the cold house îr the Scottish climate. One day he
and a playmate came down with a strange illness. The
doctor took one look and asked:
What have you been eating?
Buttercups, Louis admitted.
Oh! gasped Mrs Stevenson.
Why did you do that?
We were sailors, and we were shipwrecked, and
that was all we had to eat, he answered.
Summers were happier and healthier. And the best
part îf summer was going to Grandfather Balfours
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to clear up a cold чтобы прошла простуда
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