Лучшие истории о любви / Best love stories


Лучшие истории о любви  Best love stories
Лучшие истории о любви / Best love stories

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ISBN: 978-5-17-095369-1
Год публикации: 2016
Издательская серия: Легко читаем по-английски
Ключевые слова: Intermediate level Upper Intermediate level истории любви лексический материал текстовый материал
Автор:
И С Маевская

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Языкознание, Проза



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Лучшие истории о любви / Best love stories
Адаптация текста, комментарии и словарь И. С. Маевской
© Маевская И. С.
© ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2016
The Gift of the Magi
O. Henry
One dollar and eighty-seven cents. That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies. Three times Della counted it. One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas.
There was clearly nothing left to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
While the mistress of the home is gradually turning from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. In the vestibule below was a letter-box into which no letter would go, and an electric button from which no finger could coax a ring. Also there was a card bearing the name “Mr. James Dillingham Young.”
But whenever Mr. James Dillingham Young came home and...