Little Lord Fauntleroy

A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Retold for Learners of English by Jennifer Bassett. Cedric Errol is seven years old. He lives with his mother in a little house in New York. They don't have much money, but mother and son are good friends. Cedric is a kind, friendly little boy, and everybody likes him. His father was English, but he is now dead, and Cedric and his mother are alone in the world. But one day a lawyer arrives from England with some very surprising news about Cedric's grandfather…

Некоторые книги были бы гораздо более ясными, если бы их не старались делать столь ясными.

Сметана спрашивает у простокваши: - Как тебе наши мужчины? - Кефир постоянно какой-то кислый, а в йогурте мало культуры. - А молоко? - А это вообще не мужик и не баба, еще и постоянно куда-то сбегает.