The World of Fantasy
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The World of Fantasy = Мир фантазии

Автор: Наталья Кулинцева

Форматы: PDF

Издательство: Директ-Медиа

Год: 2016

Место издания: Москва|Берлин

ISBN: 978-5-4475-6218-2

Страниц: 167

Артикул: 11464

Возрастная маркировка: 16+

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Настоящее издание является учебным пособием по чтению на английском языке для студентов 2, 3 курсов отделения «Литературное творчество».

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The Grimm Brothers. Children's and Household Tales
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland
Bram Stoker. Dracula
Mary Shelley. Frankenstein
Herbert George Wells. The Star. The Stolen Body
Montague Rhodes James. The Collected Ghost Stories
Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The Outsider

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not the reader has gathered so much, that was the character which Parkins had. On the following day Parkins did, as he had hoped, succeed in getting away from his college, and in arriving at Burnstow. He was made welcome at the Globe Inn, was safely installed in the large double-bedded room of which we have heard, and was able before retiring to rest to ar-range his materials for work in apple-pie order upon a commodious table which occupied the outer end of the room, and was surrounded on three sides by windows looking out seaward; that is to say, the central window looked straight out to sea, and those on the left and right commanded prospects along the shore to the north and south respectively. On the south you saw the village of Burnstow. On the north no houses were to be seen, but only the beach and the low cliff backing it. Immediately in front was a strip – not considerable – of rough grass, dot-ted with old anchors, capstans, and so forth; then a broad path; then the beach. whatever may have been the original distance between the Globe Inn and the sea, not more than sixty yards now separated them. The rest of the population of the inn was, of course, a golfing one, and included few elements a special descrip-tion. The most conspicuous figure was, perhaps, that of an ancien militaire secretary of a London club, and possessed of a voice of incredible strength, and of views of a pro-nouncedly Protestant type. These were apt to find utterance after his attendance upon the ministrations of the Vicar, an estimable man with inclinations towards a picacresque ritu-al, which he gallantly kept down as far as he could out of deference to East Anglian tradition. Professor Parkins, one of whose principal characteris-tics was pluck, spent the greater part of the day following his arrival at Burnstow in what he had called improving his game, in company with this Colon...