75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories

Long Island Sound – the arm of the North Atlantic Ocean between the New York shore and Long Island

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Oyster bay – a town in the state of New York on central Long Island, founded in 1653–1660

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Nebuchadnezzars – here: barbarians, savages; Nebuchadnezzar II (630 BC–561 BC) was the great king of Babylonia, famous for his military expeditions to the Middle East where he, at different time, conquered Syria and Palestine, and crushed the Egyptian army.

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seguramente = of course, certainly ( Spanish )

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Aztec – an ancient civilization that formed an enormous empire in the 15th–16th centuries in what is now Mexico

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Yucatan – Yucatan Peninsula between the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea

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carruaje = carriage ( Spanish )

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baile = ball, dance ( Spanish )

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botica = drugstore ( Spanish )

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Belize – a river in Central America, and a town and seaport on the Caribbean coast

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New Jersey – the US state (19 479 square km) on the Atlantic coast

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the South Sea Islands – the Marquesas Islands, Gilbert Islands, Tahiti, Samoa, etc.

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Son cœur est un luth suspendu; Sitôt qu’on le touche il résonne . – His heart is a hanging lute; As soon as one touches it, it sounds out. ( French )

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De Beranger – Pierre-Jean de Beranger (1780–1857), a French poet, the author of many popular, lyrical and tender songs

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ennuyé = bored, disappointed ( French )

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arabesque – here: of elaborate design

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morale = moral state

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cataleptical – suffering from periods of unconsciousness and rigidity of muscles; unstable.

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Fuseli – Henry Fuseli (1741–1825), a Swiss painter known for his dramatic and original works

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impromptus = improvisations ( Latin )

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Gresset – Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset (1709–1777), a French poet and dramatist

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Machiavelli – Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1521), a political philosopher and statesman of the Italian Renaissance

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Swedenborg – Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), a scientist, philosopher, theologian and Christian mystic of Swedish origin

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Holberg – Ludwig Holberg (1684–1754), a prominent Scandinavian writer and philosopher of the Enlightment period

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Robert Flud(d) (1574–1637) – an English philosopher, physician, occultist and author

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Tieck – Ludwig Tieck (1773–1853), a German writer and critic of the early Romantic period

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Campanella – Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639), an Italian philosopher and writer, the author of the famous ‘The City of the Sun’

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Eymeric de Cironne – Nicholas Eymerich (1320–1399), a Roman Catholic theologian, the great inquisitor of Aragon

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Pomponius Mela – a Roman author and geographer of the 5th century

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Satyr – in ancient mythology, a mythical being, part man part goat

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Œgipans – in mythology, a mythical creature in a bestial rather than human form

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Avatar – incarnation (usually of a deity in a human or animal form)

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phantasm = phantom

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‘Hernani’ – a tragedy in five acts by Victor Hugo (1802–1885), a famous French novelist, dramatist and poet of the Romantic period

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out-Heroded Herod – idiom to be worse than the worst person imaginable

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shewn = shown (seldom used)

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Mahomet – Muhammad (530–632), Arab prophet of God, founder of the religion of Islam

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Kashmere – Kashmir, a region in northwestern India

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sylph-like – sylph, in folklore, is an imaginary mortal but soulless being that inhabits the air

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Pausanias (2nd century) – a famous Greek traveller, geographer and writer of the past

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Smyrna – a large city and port in what is now Turkey

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Otranto – a town on the Mediterranean Sea in southeastern Italy

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ataghans – yataghans, sabres with a long curved blades

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Calais – a city and seaport on the Strait of Dover in northern France

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the Ganges – a great river in India, flowing from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, the holy river in Hinduism

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Tottenham Court Road – a street in central London

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Durham – a historic county in northeastern England, on the North Sea coast

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Omar Khayyam (1048–1131) – a great Persian poet, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher

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FitzGerald’s notes – Edward FitzGerald (1809–1883), an English poet and writer, famous for his translations of Omar Khayyam’s poetry and notes on it

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crème de menthe – mint liqueur

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Durbar – in India, an imperial assembly to mark some state occasion

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Lapland – an area in northern Europe, in Norway, Sweden and Finland, mainly within the Arctic Circle; it was named for the Lapp, or Sami, who inhabited the region for many centuries.

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