An old man plants a little turnip that grows and grows, until it's so big that it takes everyone including the mouse to pull it. With illustrations by Helen Oxenbury. First published in 1968. Part of the PICTURE MAMMOTH series.

The Great Big Enormous Turnip

Children's Books

Tolstoy, Aleksey

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

F.Watts

<p>Reshil perechitat' i ponyal, mne popalas' original'naya versiya teksta, ta, chto uvidela svet v 1923 godu, a ne ta, chto byla podgotovlena dlya «Detgiza» v 1937 i kotoruyu zatem i perepechatyvali neschetnoe kolichestvo raz. Mozhno skazat', otkryl dlya sebya novuyu knigu: «Aelita; Zakat Marsa». Mars poluchilsya ves'ma lyubopytnym mestom. Kak stanovitsya yasno iz istoricheskikh ekskursov, svoim rastsvetom on obyazan massovoy ekspansii Atlantov-Magatsitlov, spasavshikhsya so svoey gibnushchey rodiny. Do ikh poyavleniya plemena krasnokozhikh aborigenov-aolov veli ves'ma primitivnyy obraz zhizni, i lish' poyavlenie Magatsitlov, prevoskhodyashchikh marsian v razvitii i vedushchikh krayne agressivnuyu politiku, vskolykhnulo ikh obshchestvo i posluzhilo tolchkom k stremitel'nomu progressu. Sredi atlantov ne bylo zhenshchin, i oni stali smeshivat' svoyu krov' s krov'yu aborigenov, porodiv novuyu rasu – golubokozhikh gorov, kotorye i stali fakticheskimi vladykami vsey planety, Aelita – potomok gorov. Za neskol'ko desyatiletiy do opisyvaemykh v povesti sobytiy na Marse razrazilas' opustoshitel'naya voyna. Ogromnye territorii podverglis' zapusteniyu, prakticheski na vsem prostranstve za gorami Liziazira ne ostalos' zhiteley. Vsya tsivilizatsiya marsian perezhivaet upadok, uvyadaet vmeste s razrushennoy planetoy. I na fone etogo vseobshchego dekadansa avtor pishet o rastsvetshey lyubvi: «Tot schastliv, v kom – polnota, soglasie, radost' i zhazhda zhit' dlya togo, kto daet etu polnotu, soglasie, radost'... Takoe schast'ye prikhodit v lyubvi k zhenshchine». Poteryav lyubov' na Zemle, Los' vnov' obretaet ee na Tume i, polnost'yu okoldovannyy etim chuvstvom, vsetselo posvyashchaet sebya predmetu svoego chuvstva – Aelite. Ona zhe, v svoyu ochered', okhvachennaya noviznoy i neobychnost'yu sovershenno neob''yasnimykh dlya nee perezhivaniy, idet radi vozlyublennogo na pryamoe nepodchinenie ottsu i polnoe nepriyatie ugotovannoy ey sud'by. Vlyublennye prekrasno ponimayut, chto ikh chuvstva obrecheny, no osoznanie etogo ne ostanavlivaet ikh... Avtor kasaetsya v tekste i metafizicheskikh voprosov. Osobennyy interes vyzyvaet legendarnaya figura Pastukha, vstretivshego Syna Neba: «Syn neba udaryal posokhom v kamen', i vystupala voda». Dlya Pastukha on stal Bogom, no v otlichie ot khristianskogo – zlym Bogom. A sam Pastukh udivitel'nym obrazom sovmestil v sebe cherty Moiseya, i Iisusa. Itog: pervonachal'naya (predstavlennaya v etom izdanii) versiya romana okazalas' gorazdo glubzhe i interesney chem detgizovskaya. Tekst zaigral novymi kraskami i napolnilsya novymi smyslami. Avtor nasytil fantasticheskuyu tematiku mnozhestvom sotsial'no-politicheskikh i romanticheskikh motivov, sozdav udivitel'no mnogogrannoe proizvedenie. Khoroshiy literaturnyy yazyk, fakturnye geroi, zakhvatyvayushchaya atmosfera i tonkaya lyubovnaya liniya, soedinilis' v velikolepnyy tekst, porodiv yarchayshee proizvedenie v zhanre nauchnoy fantastiki.</p>

Aelita, or the Decline of Mars (Russian Edition)

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