Сказки / Fairy Tales

Сказки / Fairy Tales

Оскар Уайльд

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В данной книге собраны знаменитые сказки Оскара Уайльда: «День рождения Инфанты», «Великан-эгоист», «Замечательная ракета» и другие. Пронзительные, полные иронии и символизма, они не оставят равнодушными ни детей, ни взрослых.

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Оскар Уайльд / Oscar Wilde

Сказки / Fairy Tales

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The Star-Child

Once upon a time[1 - once upon a time  –  однажды] two poor Woodcutters went home through a great pine-forest. It was winter, and a night of bitter cold. The snow was upon the ground, and upon the branches of the trees. The frost snapped the little twigs on their sides, as they passed.

The mountain river was motionless in air, because the Ice-King kissed her. So cold was it that even the animals and the birds did not know what to do.

‘Ugh!’ snarled the Wolf, as he limped through the brushwood with his tail between his legs, ‘this is really monstrous weather. Why doesn’t the Government look to it?[2 - Why doesn’t the Government look to it?  –  Куда только смотрит правительство?]’

‘Weet! weet! weet!’ twittered the green Linnets, ‘the old Earth is dead and she has her white shroud on.

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‘The Earth will marry soon, and this is her bridal dress,’ whispered the Doves to each other. Their little pink feet were quite frozen, but they felt that it was their duty to speak romantically.

‘Nonsense!’ growled the Wolf. ‘I tell you that it is all the fault of the Government. If you don’t believe me I shall eat you.’

The Wolf had a very practical mind, and always had a good argument.

‘Well, as for me,’ said the Woodpecker, who was a philosopher, ‘I don’t care[3 - I don’t care  –  меня не волнует] an atomic theory for explanations.

If a thing is so, it is so. At present it is terribly cold.’

Terribly cold it certainly was. The little Squirrels, who lived inside the tall fir-tree, rubbed each other’s noses to get some warm. The Rabbits curled themselves up in their holes, and did not look out of doors. The only people who enjoyed it were the Owls.