Array Коллектив авторов - 75 лучших рассказов / 75 Best Short Stories

the Cordilleras– also called the Andes, a mountain system of South America

Roosevelt– Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), president of the United States in 1901–1909; he got the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906.

Grover Cleveland(1837–1908) – an honest and principled politician, president of the USA in 1885–1889 and 1893–1897

Adam– a biblical figure, the first man on Earth created by God ‘in His own image’ on the sixth day of Creation

Talleyrand(1754–1858) – Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, a French statesman and diplomat during the French Revolution, under Napoleon, and later at the Restoration of the Bourbon monarchy

Mrs. De Pompadour– Marquise de Pompadour (1721–1764), an influential figure at the court of Louis XV of France and since 1745 his mistress

Loeb– Jacques Loeb (1859–1924), a famous American biologist

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

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

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.

seguramente= of course, certainly ( Spanish )

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

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

carruaje= carriage ( Spanish )

baile= ball, dance ( Spanish )

botica= drugstore ( Spanish )

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

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

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

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 )

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

ennuyé= bored, disappointed ( French )

arabesque– here: of elaborate design

morale= moral state

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

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

impromptus= improvisations ( Latin )

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

phantasm= phantom

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

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

shewn= shown (seldom used)

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

Kashmere– Kashmir, a region in northwestern India

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

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

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

Otranto– a town on the Mediterranean Sea in southeastern Italy

ataghans– yataghans, sabres with a long curved blades

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

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

Tottenham Court Road– a street in central London

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

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