Array Коллектив авторов - 20 лучших повестей на английском / 20 Best Short Novels

Genii – pl. from genie ; in Arabic folklore, a spirit with magic powers

Christmas Carol – a Christmas hymn of joy and praise

Welch= Welsh

before a man can say Jack Robinson – idiom very quickly

Friars – members of a religious order

kith and kin – idiom friends and relatives

bob – a British coin called ‘shilling’, no longer in use

Ogre – in folklore, a cruel man-eating giant

the Baleful – the Evil

sexton – a man who works in a church, looks after the church buildings, digs graves, rings the bell

calico – plain cotton cloth used for sheets, shirts, dresses, etc.

before you dot another i – idiom before you pay attention to smth. or complete smth.

Hades – in the Greek Old Testament, the place where the dead live

the Mississippi River – the largest river in North America, and, together with its tributary, the Missouri, the longest river in the world

New England – a region in the northwest of the USA including several states; the name was given by Captain Smith in 1614

Midas – in Greek and Roman mythology, a king of Phrygia known for his foolishness and greed

Boston – a city in the northwest of the United States, on Massachusetts Bay

Chicago – a large city in northwestern Illinois

Victorian – smb. or smth. (art, style, literature, people, etc.) of the time of Queen Victoria (1837–1901)

preparatory school – in the USA, a private school where pupils are prepared for college

the Ritz-Carlton Hotel – a luxurious hotel; Cesar Ritz (1850–1918) had a controlling interest in ten hotels including the Ritz in Paris (1898) and Carlton in London

Montana – the US state on the US-Canadian border

Brakeman – in the USA, an official in charge of a railway train

protagonist – a chief person in a play, story or real event

the Montana Rockies – the Rocky Mountains in western Montana, the land of high mountains and deep valleys

Croesus(the 6th century BC) – the last king of Lydia, an ancient land in Asia Minor; Croesus was extremely rich, and later his name became the symbol of wealth.

château – a large country house or castle

acciaccare – musical term; means short, crumpled sound

rococo – an elaborate style in art and architecture in the late 18th century Europe

Titania – a literary character in Shakespeare’s comedy ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ who resembles Hera, the queen of the Olympic gods, in Greek mythology

platonic – related to Plato (428 BC–348 BC), one of the greatest Greek philosophers, or his teachings

the Adriatic Sea – a part of the Mediterranean Sea between the Italian and the Balkan peninsulars

piccolo – a small flute with a tender sound

Virginian – from Virginia, a state on the US Atlantic coast, south of Washington; the state was named for Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen (1533–1603)

George Washington(1732–1799) – commander in chief in the American Revolutionary War in 1775–1783 and the first president of the United States in 1789–1797

Lord Baltimore – George Calvert who controlled the first British colony in Maryland to the north of Virginia; his son, Leonard Calvert (1606–1647), was the first governor of Maryland colony

the Civil War – a four-year war (1861–1865) between the US federal government and the Southern states that wanted to secede from the Union

St. Paul – a city on the Mississippi River in Minnesota

the Catskills – the Catskill Mountains, a part of the Appalachian Mountains in the southwest of New York state

Jersey – New Jersey, one of the thirteen original states on the Atlantic coast, south and southwest of New York

Long Island – an island in the Atlantic Ocean, the southwestern part of New York state

proclamation – an official or public statement

aliases – an alias is a name, different from one’s own, which a person uses on some occasions or for some reasons

the Babylonian Empire – an ancient empire in Babylonia, a cultural region in Mesopotamia, the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers

bric-à-brac – bits of old and curious things of no great value

nymph – in Greek and Roman mythology, a goddess living in rivers, trees, etc.; a beautiful young woman

Newport – a city in southwestern Rhode Island, US, founded in 1633

amnesia – loss of memory

wop( Am. slang ) = an Italian

Pro deo et patria et St. Midas( Latin ) = For God, and fatherland, and St. Midas

the Balkans – the Balkan Peninsular, a cultural and historical region in Eastern Europe

Serbian – related to Serbia, a country in the west-central Balkans

Empress Eugénie – the wife of Napoleon III (1808–1873), president of the Second Republic of France and then the emperor of France

West Virginia – a small US mountain state east of the Mississippi River, admitted to the Union in 1863

Omaha – a city in eastern Nebraska, on the west bank of the Mississippi River