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The Sea Wolf, London J., 1904.

   London, Jack (1876-1916) - A self-educated American adventure novelist who was a sailor, a tramp, and a gold miner before he began his writing career.
His work had constant themes of survival and compassion for the underdog. Sea Wolf (1904) - The adventures of Humphrey Van Weydon, a ship-wrecked literary critic, and his rescuer, Wolf Larsen, the ruthless captain of the Ghost. The two main characters are often said to represent the opposing sides of London’s own personality in this highly regarded tale of the sea.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Baum F.L., 1900.

   Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
Having this thought in mind, the story of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to pleasure children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heart-aches and nightmares are left out.

Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare W.

   Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whole misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife. The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love, And the continuance of their parents' rage, Which, but their children's end, nought could remove, Is now the two hours' traffic of our stage; The which if you with patient ears attend, What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Carroll L., 2000.

Фрагмент из книги:
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations ?”

Classic stories for children, Brothers Grimm.

Фрагмент из книги:
There were once a man and a woman who had long in vain wished for a child. At length the woman hoped that God was about to grant her desire. These people had a little window at the back of their house from which a splendid garden could be seen, which was full of the most beautiful flowers and herbs. It was, however, surrounded by a high wall, and no one dared to go into it because it belonged to an enchantress, who had great power and was dreaded by all the world. One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapunzel), and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain, 1884.

   Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred; one or two were experiences of my own, the rest those of boys who were schoolmates of mine. Huck Finn is drawn from life; Tom Sawyer also, but not from an individual—he is a combination of the characteristics of three boys whom I knew, and therefore belongs to the composite order of architecture.
The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this story—that is to say, thirty or forty years ago.
Although my book is intended mainly for the entertainment of boys and girls, I hope it will not be shunned by men and women on that account, for part of my plan has been to try to pleasantly remind adults of what they once were themselves, and of how they felt and thought and talked, and what queer enterprises they sometimes engaged in.

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.

Фрагмент из книги:
My family have been prominent, well-to-do people in this Middle Western city for three generations. The Carraways are something of a clan, and we have a tradition that we’re descended from the Dukes of Buccleuch, but the actual founder of my line was my grandfather’s brother, who came here in fifty-one, sent a substitute to the Civil War, and started the wholesale hardware business that my father carries on to-day.

Cambridge English Qualificatio, C2 Proficiency, Handbook for teachers for exams from 2023, 2023.

   C2 Proficiency was originally offered in 1913 and is a highlevel qualification that is officially recognised by universities, employers and governments around the world. It proves that a candidate has an extremely high level of English for use in academic or professional settings.