20 лучших повестей на английском / 20 Best Short Novels

Moses  – a Hebrew prophet of the 14th-13th centuries BC who delivered his people from Egyptian slavery

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witch of Endor  – in the Old Testament, a sorceress, whom king Saul came to and asked to conjure up the spirit of the prophet Samuel

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Samuel  – in the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet of the 11th century BC and a religious hero

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Elias  – in the Old Testament, a Hebrew prophet of the 9th century BC

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Mount Tabor  – a low mountain in northern Israel, mentioned in the Old Testament

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Sennacherib (7th century BC) – king of Assyria, an ancient kingdom in northern Mesopotamia, one of the greatest empires of the ancient Middle East

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Saint Macarius (4th century BC) – Macarius the Great or Macarius the Egyptian, a monk and ascetic with extraordinary power of prophecy and healing

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Saint Martin of Tours (316–397) – the patron saint of France

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Saint Germain (496–576) – one of the most revered saints of France

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Swebach (1769–1823) – Jacques FranÇois Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines (1769–1823), a French painter

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Pausanias  – a Greek geographer and traveler of the 2nd century

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Marathon  – the Marathon plain where a decisive battle between the Greeks and the Persians took place in 490 BC

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Tillotson  – John Tillotson, archbishop of Canterbury in 1691

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Devonshire  – a historic county along the English Channel coast

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the Gordian knot  – idiom a problem that can be solved by resolute action

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Apollyon  – in the Old Testament, a synonym of death

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The Midsummer Night’s Dream  – Shakespeare’s comedy in five acts written in 1596

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Kensington  – a fashionable area in central London

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Mahomet  – Muhammad (570–632), an Islamic prophet, founder of the religion of Islam

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charivari  – uproar, mess

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Rossini  – Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868), a famous Italian opera composer

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Theseus  – in Greek legends, a great hero, the son of the king of Athens

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sedet aeternumque sedebit ( Latin ) = sits and will sit forever

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Sophocles (496 BC–406 BC) – a Greek playwright, author of classical tragedies

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the Reformation – the revolutionary religious movement in the Western Christian church in the 16th century

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Protestantism – the branch of Christianity; it originated in the 16th century and stated the supremacy of Holy Scripture in matters of faith and order

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Lutheranism – the branch of Christianity named for one of the leaders of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther (1483–1546), a German religious reformer

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Novalis – Friedrich Leopold von Hardenberg (1772–1801), a German Romantic poet

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Ansichten = views, opinions (German)

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Upon the original publication of “Marie Rogêt,” the foot-notes now appended were considered unnecessary; but the lapse of several years since the tragedy upon which the tale is based, renders it expedient to give them, and also to say a few words in explanation of the general design. A young girl, Mary Cecilia Rogers, was murdered in the vicinity of New York; and, although her death occasioned an intense and long-enduring excitement, the mystery attending it had remained unsolved at the period when the present paper was written and published (November, 1842). Herein, under pretence of relating the fate of a Parisian grisette, the author has followed in minute detail, the essential, while merely paralleling the inessential facts of the real murder of Mary Rogers. Thus all argument founded upon the fiction is applicable to the truth: and the investigation of the truth was the object. The “Mystery of Marie Rogêt” was composed at a distance from the scene of the atrocity, and with no other means of investigation than the newspapers afforded. Thus much escaped the writer of which he could have availed himself had he been upon the spot, and visited the localities. It may not be improper to record, nevertheless, that the confessions of two persons, (one of them the Madame Deluc of the narrative) made, at different periods, long subsequent to the publication, confirmed, in full, not only the general conclusion, but absolutely all the chief hypothetical details by which that conclusion was attained

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Faubourg Saint Germain  – an area in Paris along the Seine River, south of the city centre

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Prefect  – chief, head or director of some department (here: police)

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Prefecture  – Prefect’s office

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Nassau Street

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the Palais Royal  – 1. a shopping centre in Paris; 2. a theatre in Paris, founded in the 17th century; the theatre became known by the name of the residence of Cardinal Richelieu

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Anderson

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grisette  – a young city girl, not very strict in her behavior, working as a milliner, seamstress, salesgirl, etc. ( French )

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