Маленький принц / The Little Prince

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«Маленький принц» – одно из самых известных и до сих пор любимых читателем произведений французского писателя Антуана де Сент-Экзюпери. Эта небольшая повесть-сказка переведена практически на все языки мира, а общий тираж изданий по всему миру превысил к настоящему времени 80 миллионов экземпляров. Текст сопровождается упражнениями на понимание прочитанного, комментариями и словарем, облегчающим чтение. Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык нижней ступени (уровень 2 – Pre-Intermediate).

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Иллюстрации Е.Д. Шавиковой 1 Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa which was swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing: In the book it said: “Boas swallow their prey whole, they do not chew it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion.” I thought about it. And then I made my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this: I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered: “Frighten? Why can anyone be frightened by a hat?” My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa which was digesting an elephant. But the grown-ups were not able to understand it. They always needed explanations. So I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa. This time the grown-ups could see it clearly. My Drawing Number Two looked like this: