The Horror of the Heights. A book in English with a dictionary

The novella by the outstanding British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "The Horror of the Heights" was published in 1913, when aviation was just beginning, and naturally, many writers started to construct their fantastic hypotheses about what awaited man among the clouds in the upper layers of the atmosphere. The main character of the novella, aviator Joyce-Armstrong, believed that there exists its own life and its own predators, he saw several stratospheric forms of life and even attempted to bring one of them, resembling a jellyfish, to the ground, but… This original text can be used for further study of the English language, English literature, and culture.

To facilitate reading and understanding of the text, each page is accompanied by translations of individual words and necessary comments, and at the end of the book, there is an Anglo-Russian dictionary containing most of the used words. Unlike bilingual publications, it allows the reader to interpret the meanings of words depending on the context and, thus, not only makes reading in a foreign language enjoyable but also develops language skills.