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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).

“The silence was unbroken. I looked round, and the five couriers were gone: so noiselessly that the ghostly mountains might have absorbed them into its eternal snows.”Thought recently married, the honeymoon fase of a young English couple is disrupted by the bride’s haunting dreams. Every time she closes her eyes, the vision of a dark and remarkable-looking man with a mysterious air appears before her. He says nothing. He does nothing. He just looks at her. One day the bride’s husband brings home a new acquaintance, an Italian man named Dellombra. And he looks precisely as the man of the bride’s nightmares.To Be Read at Dusk is an excellent and atmospheric ghost story, written by the best in the business.

After death the hero arrives not in heaven, not in hell: in the Noosphere. What is his disappointment when he perceives himself as «incomplete»: no image, no likeness — only the totality of knowledge, only consciousness in the thinking shell, which is the surrounding space. But the hero is not disappointed alone. Here he meets many other «comrades»: Jesus, Apostle Paul, Caesar, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Mohammed, Buddha, Napoleon, Stalin. Life «in a new dimension» begins…