Одноэтажная Америка / Little Golden America

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Илья Ильф. Одноэтажная Америка / Little Golden America

Part I. From а twenty-seventh-story window

1. Тhe Normandie

2. The First Evening in New York

3. What Can Be Seen From a Hotel Window

4. Appetite Departs While Eating

5. We Seek an Angel Without Wings

6. Papa and Mamma

7. The Electric Chair

8. A New York Arena

9. We Purchase an Automobile and Depart

Part II. Through the eastern states

10. On the Automobile Highway

11. The Small Town

12. A Big Little Town

13. Mr. Ripley’s Electric House

14. America Cannot Be Caught Napping

15. Dearborn

16. Henry Ford

17. That Horrible Town, Chicago

18. The Best Musicians in the World

Part III. Toward the Pacific ocean

19. In Mark Twain’s Country

20. A Marine

21. Rogers and His Wife

22. Santa Fe

23. Meeting the Indians

24. A Day of Mishaps

25. The Desert

26. Grand Canyon

27. The Man In the Red Shirt

28. A Young Baptist

29. On the Crest of the Dam

Part IV. ТНЕ GOLDEN STАТЕ

30. Mrs. Adams Sets a Record

31. San Francisco

32. American Football

33. Russian Hill

34. Captain X

35. Four Standard Types

36. The God of Potboilers

37. Hollywood Serfs

38. Pray, Weigh Yourself, and Pay

39. God’s Country

Part V. Back to the Atlantic

40. On the Old Spanish Trail

41. A Day in Mexico

42. New Year’s Eve in San Antonio

43. We Enter the Southern States

44. Negroes

45. American Democracy

46. They and We

47. Farewell, America!

Отрывок из книги

АT NINE o’clock а special train leaves Paris for Le Havre with passengers for the Normandie. This train makes no stops. Three hours after its departure it rolls into the large structure which is in the Havre maritime station. Here the passengers descend to a shut-in platform, are lifted by escalators to the upper floor of the station, walk through halls and along passageways, all completely enclosed, and finally find themselves in a large vestibule where they take their places in elevators and depart for their various decks. At last they are on the Normandie. They have not the slightest idea what it looks like, for throughout this journey they had not even caught a glimpse of its outer contours.

We took the stairway to our cabin, a stairway covered throughout with a non-inflammаblе rubber carpet of bright green. Тhе соrridоrs and vestibules of the ship were covered with the same carpeting, which makes each footfall soft and soundless. But one does not fully appreciate the merits of rubber carpeting until the ship begins to roll in earnest. Then the carpeting seems to grip the soles. True, that does not save one from being seasick, but it does keep one from falling.

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“No, no, no, you don’t understand! This is very, very important!”

We became sad. We ourselves knew how important that was.

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