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

Tudor hall – a hall of the Tudor period; the Tudors were the royal dynasty in England in the 15th-17th centuries.

cheroot – a thin cigar open at both ends

Fanny Davenport(1850–1898) – an American actress, very popular on the 19th century American stage

Sara Bernhardt(1844–1923) – a great French actress of the 19th century, a legendary figure in the history of stage

the Fourth Dimension of Space – we live in the third-dimension space; the fourth dimension is said to be inhabited by supernatural beings

Voltaire(1694–1778) – one of the greatest French philosophers and writers, critical, witty and satirical

Charles James Fox(1749–1806) – a British politician, reformer and humanist

the Free American Reformed Episcopalian Church – one of the divisions of the Protestant Church

Titan – in Greek mythology, one of the children of Earth and Heaven, strong and rebellious

Chanticleer – a character in medieval literature in which animals were given human characteristics, and they acted as humans; a cockerel

arquebuse – a gun fired from the shoulder, invented in Spain in the 15th century

Benedictine – a member of the monastic religious Order of Saint Benedict (480–547), the founder of the first monastery and the father of Western Christian monasticism