Nora is Heald - one of the bright names in the brilliant pleiad of the Russian literati, creating the world confessed school of artistic translation. The glory she deserved, opening the "Little prince" Сент-Экзюпери to us. By the priceless merit of Nora Heald there are her prominent translations of masterpieces of modern world literature.A "word living and dead" is generalization of long-term work and Nora Heald, and her remarkable colleagues. At the same time this work is far beyond of actually translating problems. Taking apart typical errors getting to prose and publicism, on radio and television, and matching against them the brilliant standards of living Russian speech, she brings in an invaluable contribution to so actual now fight for a cleanness and dignity of Russian.