Найти книгу: "Astounding Wonder"

When physicist Robert Goddard, whose career was inspired by H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds , published «A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes,» the response was electric. Newspaper headlines across the country announced, «Modern Jules Verne Invents Rocket to Reach Moon,» while people from around the world, including two World War I pilots, volunteered as pioneers in space exploration. Though premature (Goddard's rocket, alas, was only imagined), the episode demonstrated not only science's general popularity but also its intersection with interwar popular and commercial culture. In that intersection, the stories that inspired Goddard and others became a recognizable genre: science fiction. Astounding Wonder explores science fiction's emergence in the era's «pulps,» colorful magazines that shouted from the newsstands, attracting an extraordinarily loyal and active audience. Pulps invited readers not only to read science fiction but also to participate in it, joining writers and editors in celebrating a collective wonder for and investment in the potential of science. But in conjuring fantastic machines, travel across time and space, unexplored worlds, and alien foes, science fiction offered more than rousing adventure and romance. It also assuaged contemporary concerns about nation, gender, race, authority, ability, and progress—about the place of ordinary individuals within modern science and society—in the process freeing readers to debate scientific theories and implications separate from such concerns. Readers similarly sought to establish their worth and place outside the pulps. Organizing clubs and conventions and producing their own magazines, some expanded science fiction's community and created a fan subculture separate from the professional pulp industry. Others formed societies to launch and experiment with rockets. From debating relativity and the use of slang in the future to printing purple fanzines and calculating the speed of spaceships, fans' enthusiastic industry revealed the tensions between popular science and modern science. Even as it inspired readers' imagination and activities, science fiction's participatory ethos sparked debates about amateurs and professionals that divided the worlds of science fiction in the 1930s and after.

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. Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out. L. Frank Baum Chicago, April, 1900.

Что будет, если пойти за спешащим Белым Кроликом в жилете? Можно ли оказаться не в своем уме, а в чужом? А встречали ли вы улыбку без кота? И почему нельзя убить время за чаепитием с Мартовским Зайцем? Удивительные ответы на удивительные вопросы можно найти только в Стране чудес, нырнув за отважной Алисой в кроличью нору, пережив множество захватывающих приключений и разгадав по пути тысячу головоломок.

Если вы изучаете английский язык или свободно на нем говорите, у вас есть замечательная возможность познакомиться с приключениями девочки, попавшей в кроличью нору, на языке оригинала, а затем проверить свое понимание произведения, прослушав русский перевод. Текст не адаптирован, что должно быть особенно интересно для людей, владеющих английским на высоком уровне. Английская версия начитана носительницей языка, многократной победительницей конкурсов художественного чтения – Лизой Рей Кэмбелл (Новая Зеландия).

Книга содержит сокращенный и упрощенный текст сказки английского писателя Л. Кэрролла о невероятных приключениях девочки Алисы. Помимо текста сказки, книга содержит систему упражнений, постраничные комментарии и словарь. Предназначается для начинающих изучать английский язык (уровень 1 – Elementary).

В предлагаемый сборник вошли самые известные английские народные сказки («Том Тит Тот», «Джек и бобовый стебель» и др.), а также сказки «Алиса в стране чудес» Л. Кэрролла и «Удивительный волшебник из страны Оз» Л.Ф. Баума. Для удобства читателя книга содержит комментарии, краткие словарики к каждому разделу и разные виды упражнений. Предназначается для начинающих изучать английский язык (уровень 1 – Elementary).