Honolulu
William Somerset Maugham
After working in British Intelligence during World War I, William Somerset Maugham set off to regain his health by traveling to Asia, Mexico, and the Pacific Islands. During this trip he gather materials and wrote the stories that appeared in 1921 in The Trembling of a Leaf. The six short stories and two "sketches" include the famous story "Rain"-adapted for both theater and film as Sadie Thompson, "Macintosh", "The Fall of Edward Barnard" .Of course love is always a subject of the tropics and Maugham's deft, ironic handling of the theme in "Red" and "Honolulu" is masterful.. These short stories are some of his best, and among the best ever written about the exotic South Seas. (Amazon.com).
Looking for local color, Somerset Maugham went slumming there and wrote this in his notebook: “You go down side-streets by the harbor, in the darkness, across a rickety bridge, and you come to a road, all ruts and holes; a little farther … there is a certain stir, an air of expectant agitation; you turn down a narrow alley, either to the right or to the left, and find yourself in the district… . The pretty bungalows are divided into two lodgings; each is inhabited by a woman, and each consists of two rooms and a kitchenette.”

Адаптированная книга для чтения уровень 4 (1700 слов, современный британский английский).
Most of these stories are about murder. Murder of a stranger or a relative, murder in a quiet English town or in a crowded American city. It happens everywhere, it seems, for all kinds of reasons.

In these stories by some of the finest modern crime writers in English, we see what can drive a person to murder - and that trying to catch them can be complicated and extremely dangerous!

 

My Book of Bible Stories
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This is a book of true stories. They are taken from the world’s greatest book, the Bible. The stories give you a history of the world from when God began to create until right up to our present day. They even tell about what God promises to do in the future.
This book gives you an idea of what the Bible is all about. It tells about people of the Bible and the things they did. It also shows the grand hope of everlasting life in a paradise earth that God has given to people.
There are 116 stories in the book. These are grouped in eight parts. A page at the beginning of each part tells briefly what is found in that part. The stories appear in the order that events occurred in history. This helps you to learn when, in relation to other events, things happened in history.

В канун Хэллоуина хочется порадовать детей и подростков, изучающих английский язык. Перед вами давно ставший классикой альбом Альфреда Хичкока " Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Ghost Stories for Young People". Многие англоязычные люди с сединами до сих пор с удовольствием вспоминают , как много лет назад, в канун Дня всех святых, с чёрной виниловой пластинки донёсся до них странный голос человека - казалось, будто он одновременно говорит и жуёт зефир - который неожиданно увлекательно стал рассказывать детям о том, как вызывать духов. Аудитория была покорена...