20 лучших повестей на английском / 20 Best Short Novels

Beethoven  – Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827), an outstanding German composer of the Romantic and the Classical eras

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Mozart  – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), one of the greatest composers in the history of Western music

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Handel  – George Frideric Handel (1715–1769), an English composer of German origin of the late Baroque period

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Gluck  – Christoph Gluck (1714–1787), a German composer, best known for his opera ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’

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Schumann  – Robert Schumann (1810–1856), a German Romantic composer

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Botticelli  – Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510), an outstanding Italian painter of the Florentine Renaissance

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Milton  – John Milton (1608–1674), an English poet and historian, the author of the famous ‘Paradise Lost’

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Tennyson  – Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892), an English poet of the Victorian period

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Titian (1488–1576) – the greatest Italian painter of the Venetian school of the Renaissance period

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Delilah  – 1. a biblical figure from the Old Testament, her name is a synonym of a treacherous woman; she betrayed Samson by revealing the secret of his strength. 2. the main character of ‘Samson and Delilah’, an opera by Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns

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‘Che farò’  – ‘What shall I do?’, an aria from ‘Orfeo ed Euridice’ by Gluck

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Putney  – a district in Wandsworth, an inner borough of London, on the south bank of the River Thames

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Hyde Park  – the largest park in London in the borough of Westminster

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Kensington Gardens  – a large park in central London

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the High Street  – a shopping street in Kensington, a fashionable district in central London

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Hammersmith  – a borough in Western London on the left bank of the River Thames, to the west of Chelsea

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Burgundy  – wine (usually dry and red) from the region of Burgundy in east-central France

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Richmond Park  – a park near the River Thames

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the siege of Strasbourg  – a 50-days siege of Strasbourg, a city in western France, by the Germans during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870–1871

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Mais enfin  – qu’est  – ce que tu fais là – danser, le dimanche! Viens, donc!  – What’s the matter? What are you doing? Dancing on Sunday! Stop it! ( French )

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Cleopatra (70–30 BC) – the queen of Egypt; after the Roman army defeated the Egyptian forces, Cleopatra committed suicide

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Socrates (470–329 BC) – one of the greatest Greek philosophers whose ideas and principles exerted profound influence on the development of philosophy

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codicil  – an appendix to a will, usually changing or modifying some part of it

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sal volatile  – a solution of smelling salts used when a person feels faint or is unconscious

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Make hay while the sun shines  – idiom to make the best of an opportunity

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Marguerite  – one of the main characters in Goethe’s drama and Charles Gounod’s opera ‘Faust’

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Mephisto  – Mephistopheles, a fallen angel, a literary character invented in the tradition of magic and demonology by an anonymous author in 1587; one of the main characters in ‘Faust’

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Waterloo  – a main line railway station in London, south of the Thames

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victoria  – a light carriage for two persons

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jubey  – here: wonderful

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‘Carmen’  – one of the most popular operas of all time, written by George Bizet (1838–1875), a French composer

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Habanera  – a widely known song from the opera ‘Carmen’

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the Hudson  – a river and bay in New York state, named for Henry Hudson

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the Tappan Zee  – a part of the Hudson River on the west bank where the river widens and forms the Tappan Zee

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St. Nicholas (4th century AD) – one of the most popular Christian saints, the bishop of Myra, a town in Lycia in Asia Minor

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Greensburgh  – a town on the Hudson River in the state of New York

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Tarry Town  – a village in Greensburgh town in southeastern New York state

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the Sabbath  – the day of rest (Sunday for Christians)

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glen  – a narrow valley

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Sleepy Hollow  – North Terry Town until 1996

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powwows  – conferences of North American Indians

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Hendrick Hudson  – Henry Hudson (1565–1611), an English navigator and explorer who tried to discover a route from Europe to Asia through the Arctic Ocean

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Hessian(s)  – or Chatti, a Germanic tribe from the eastern bank of the Rhine River

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Connecticut  – a small state in the northwest of the USA (12960 square km), one of the original thirteen states of the USA and one of the six New England states

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psalmody  – 1. singing psalms (religious hymns); 2. a book of psalms with musical settings.

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by hook or by crook  – idiom by any means (fair or not)

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