Endless Night / Бесконечная ночь. Книга для чтения на английском языке

Endless Night / Бесконечная ночь. Книга для чтения на английском языке

Agatha Christie

Чтение в оригинале (Каро)Detective story

Роман Агаты Кристи, которая предстает перед читателем тонким знатоком психологии человека, рассказывает о любви, которая окрыляет молодого небогатого парня и приводит его в проклятое поместье «Цыганское подворье».

Подробные комментарии и словарь помогут читателям следить за перепетиями сюжета.

Agatha Christie / Агата Кристи

Endless Night / Бесконечная ночь. Книга для чтения на английском языке

To Nora Prichard from whom I first heard the legend of Gipsy’s Acre

В В В В 

Every Night and every Morn

Some to Misery are born.

Every Morn and every Night

Some are born to Sweet Delight,

Some are born to Sweet Delight,

Some are born to Endless Night,

В В В В William Blake

В В В В Auguries of Innocence

Endless Night В© 1967

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Book I

Chapter 1

In my end is my beginning… That’s a quotation I’ve often heard people say. It sounds all right – but what does it really mean?

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one’s finger and say: �It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?’

Did my story begin, perhaps, when I noticed the Sale Bill hanging on the wall of the George and Dragon, announcing Sale by Auction of that valuable property �The Towers’, and giving particulars of the acreage, the miles and furlongs[1 - furlong – британская и американская единица измерения расстояния], and the highly idealized portrait of �The Towers’ as it might have been perhaps in its prime, anything from eighty to a hundred years ago?

I was doing nothing particular, just strolling along the main street of Kingston Bishop, a place of no importance whatever, killing time.