Hajm 576 sahifa
16+
Kitob haqida
Жизнь как воплощение американской мечты, за которую придется дорого заплатить. И не только деньгами…
Sharhlar, 1 sharh1
Текст данной книги переработан (это подход серии книг "Легко читаем по-английски" в целом) и упрощён до уровня Upper-Intermediate.
То есть сложности не разобраны; издатели упростили сам текст и снабдили его примечаниями.
Вот три первых предложения из первой главы из оригинала (можете открыть ознакомительный фрагмент и сравнить):
The Philadelphia into which Frank Algernon Cowperwood was born was a city of two hundred and fifty thousand and more. It was set with handsome parks, notable buildings, and crowded with historic memories. Many of the things that we and he knew later were not then in existence — the telegraph, telephone, express company, ocean steamer, city delivery of mails.
С другой стороны, данные примечания и словарь весьма полезны и могут быть хорошим подспорьем для изучающих английский.
The lobster leaped and grabbed the squid
From the first he had the notion that spending was better.
“What makes you think that would have anything to do with us?
tall, lean, inquisitorial, clerkly – with nice, smooth whiskers coming to almost the lower lobes of his ears
stories. There was the probability that some day they would come into something even better, but for the present this was sufficient. Henry Worthington Cowperwood was a