20 лучших повестей на английском / 20 Best Short Novels

Bath  – a city in southwestern England in the county of Somerset, a health resort with springs of mineral water located along the Avon River

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Cheltenham  – a town in the county of Gloucestershire, first mentioned in 1223

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N’est-ce pas? = Isn’t it? ( French )

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De Juillet = in July ( French )

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heterodox  – heretical

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Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) – an English writer and an Anglican clergyman

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entre nous = between you and me ( French )

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Lucifer  – in Christianity, the name of Satan, the prince of evil forces, before his fall

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très posément  – here: very firmly ( French )

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Dante  – Dante Alighieri (1265–1321), a great Italian poet, philosopher and thinker, the author of ‘The Divine Comedy’

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Don Giovanni  – a famous opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1801), one of the greatest composers in the history of music

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Mount Athos  – a holy mountain in northern Greece, where twenty Greek Orthodox monasteries are located

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a priori, a posteriori, a fortiori  – (a way of thinking) 1) from cause to effect; 2) from effect to cause; 3) on a more convincing argument

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Cadiz  – a city and port in Andalusia, in southwestern Spain, founded in 1100 BC

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Saint Peter  – the Apostle of Jesus Christ; before becoming Christ’s disciple, he was a fisherman

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Asturias  – a historic region in Spain

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Tiberius (42 BC–37 AD) – the second Roman emperor who in his last years became a tyrant

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cui bono = what for?

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belles lettres = fiction ( French )

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sirocco  – warm wind in southern Europe and over the Mediterranean Sea, originating over North Africa

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Parnassus  – a mountain in central Greece, in Greek mythology and religion, a sacred place

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Berkeley  – George Berkeley (1685–1753), an Anglican bishop and an English scientist and philosopher of Irish origin

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hyloists  – another name of millenarians

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esse = to be ( Latin )

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percipi = perceive; n perception ( Latin )

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the Severn  – the longest river in Britain flowing from Wales to the Atlantic Ocean

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the Wye  – a river in England and Wales

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Plinlimmon  – Plynlimon, a ridge in central Wales, eastward to the Rivers Severn and Wye

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Macedon  – an ancient kingdom of the Helenic Age on the Greek peninsular

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Monmouth  – a historic county in southeastern Wales

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Toutesti (Greek) , id est ( Latin ) , cioè ( Italian ) , c’est à dire ( French ) mean ‘that is.’

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Odyssey  – an epic poem by Homer; Odysseus, the main character of the poem, is a man of outstanding courage, wisdom and endurance.

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Euclid (2nd century BC) – the most prominent mathematician and geometer of Greco-Roman antiquity

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Genius Loci  – the atmosphere of the place ( Latin )

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tutela = patron ( Latin )

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Hesperian  – related to the Hesperides, in Greek mythology, maidens who guarded the tree with golden apples

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comme il faut  – properly, in a proper way ( French )

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toute autre chose  – quite differently ( French )

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Hic non bibitur!  – One doesn’t sing here! ( Latin )

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Minerva  – in Roman mythology, the goddess of handicrafts and arts

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Neptune  – in Roman mythology, the god of fresh water and sea

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Bacchus  – in Greek mythology, the god of wine and ecstasy

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Socrates (470 BC–399 BC) – the greatest Greek philosopher who exerted profound influence on philosophy of all time

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Brutus (85 BC–43 BC) – the Roman general who took part in the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC

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Cassius  – Gaius Cassius, one of the assassins of Julius Caesar

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

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kalos kagathos = kind and good ( Greek )

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Athenians  – residents of Athens

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Rosicrucian  – a member of a worldwide secret brotherhood and a follower of teaching that combines esoteric wisdom, mysticism and religious beliefs and practices of the past

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sylph  – in medieval folklore, an imaginary soulless mortal being that lives in the air

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Helen  – in Greek mythology, the most beautiful woman of her time, the cause of the Trojan War

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Zeuxis (5th century BC) – one of the best known artists of ancient Greece

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Crotona  – an ancient town in southern Italy, founded by the Greeks about 710 BC

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Tullia  – Cicero’s daughter

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tendresse = tenderness ( French )

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Sacre  – cochon  – bleu!  – Damn! ( French )

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Jamais = never ( French )

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Sunt geminae somni portae.  – The doors are open for dreams. ( Latin )

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deceptio visus = deception of vision ( Latin )

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