Книга содержит сокращенный и упрощенный текст сказки Дж. М. Барри (1860–1937) «Питер Пен». Текст произведения сопровождается комментариями, упражнениями и словарем.
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Джеймс Барри. Питер Пен / Peter Pan
Chapter 1. Peter Breaks Through[1]
Chapter 2. The Shadow
Chapter 3. Come Away, Come Away![20]
Chapter 4. The Flight
Chapter 5. The Island Come True[40]
Chapter 6. The Little House
Chapter 7. The Home under the Ground
Chapter 8. The Mermaids’ Lagoon
Chapter 9. The Never Bird[74]
Chapter 10. The Happy Home
Chapter 11. Wendy’s Story
Chapter 12. The Children are Carried off[77]
Chapter 13. Do You Believe in Fairies?
Chapter 14. The Pirate Ship
Chapter 15 “Hook or Me this Time[87]”
Chapter 16. The Return Home
Chapter 17. When Wendy Grew Up
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All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up. Wendy knew this, too. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked a flower and ran with it to her mother. Mrs. Darling cried, “Oh, why can’t you remain like this forever!” But Wendy knew that she must grow up.
There were three children in the family: Wendy, John, and Michael. The Darlings were poor, and the nurse for the children was a dog, called Nana. She was an excellent nurse. Of course her kennel was in the nursery. The nursery was wide and airy, with a large window, and a bright fire with a high fire-guard round it, and a big clock, and nursery-rhyme pictures over the walls. There never was a happier family[2] until the coming of Peter Pan.
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She comforted the children, kissed them very tenderly as mothers always do, sang them to sleep and crept softly out of the room to go to the dinner-party with Mr. Darling. When they were going to the party, all the stars were watching them. When the door of the house closed, the smallest of all the stars in the Milky Way[18] screamed out:
