The Lost World / Затерянный мир

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В предлагаемую книгу вошел текст научно-фантастического романа Артура Конан Дойла «Затерянный мир», повествующего об опасной, но невероятно увлекательной экспедиции в дебри Амазонки. В ходе экспедиции группе исследователей предстоит столкнуться с поистине невероятными событиями, побывать на грани жизни и смерти и… даже повстречаться с доисторическими существами! Смогут ли они доказать, что все произошедшее с ними – правда?

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Адаптация текста, комментарии и словарь Д. В. Положенцевой Иллюстрации И. Кульбицкой Chapter 1 There Are Heroisms All Round Us Mr. Hungerton, her father, was the most tactless person on the earth, a good-natured man, but absolutely centered on himself. If anything could have driven me from Gladys, it would have been the thought of such a father-in-law. I am sure that he really believed that I came round to their house three days a week only for the pleasure of his company. For an hour or more that evening I listened to his monotonous talk about money exchange and debts. “Imagine,” he cried, “that all the debts in the world were to be paid at once… what would happen then?” I answered that I should be a ruined man. [1] He jumped from his chair, complained that it was impossible for him to discuss any reasonable subject with me, and ran out of the room to dress for a Masonic meeting. [2]