«Великий Гэтсби» и другие лучшие произведения Ф.С. Фицджеральда. Френсис Скотт Фицджеральд
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the World’s Series – baseball championship of the two professional leagues: the American League and the National League; first held in 1903.
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Sauterne – natural sweet wine from the district of Sauterne in France
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the South Seas – a part of the Pacific Ocean where the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, Hawaii, Samoa and the Gilbert Islands are located
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Santa Barbara – a city on the Pacific Coast in southwestern California, founded in 1602 and named for the patron saint of mariners
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Ventura – a city on the Pacific Coast in southern California, founded in 1782
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Cannes – a resort city on the French Riviera in southeastern France
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Deauville – a fashionable resort in northern France
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Coney Island – an amusement area in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City
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Clay – Henry Clay (1777–1852), American statesman noted for his system of economic stability and prosperity
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Castle Rackrent – a historical novel by Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), Anglo-Irish writer
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Kant – Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), German philosopher, the author of many works on the theory of knowledge, ethics and aesthetics, one of the greatest philosophers of all time
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Marie Antoinette (1755—1793) – queen of France, wife of Louis XVI of France; she was imprisoned and executed during the French Revolution.
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Restoration – Bourbon Restoration of 1814–1830 when the Bourbon monarchs were restored to the throne
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Chartreuse – liqueur made from more than 130 plants by the monks of La Grande Chartreuse in France
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pompadour – a man’s hairstyle in which hair is combed back without a parting (
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Lake Superior – the largest of the five Great Lakes of North America, located on the US-Canadian border
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Platonic conception – here: idealistic conception;
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Lutheran – from
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College of St. Olaf’s = St. Olaf College, a private higher educational institution in southeastern Minnesota, affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; it was founded in 1874 by Norwegian immigrants, and named for Saint Olaf, the patron saint of Norway.
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seventy-five – here: 1875
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Madame de Maintenon (1635—1719) – the second wife and untitled queen of Louis XIV of France, noted for her piety and philanthropy
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the West Indies – a group of islands in the Atlantic Ocean separating the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea from the ocean
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Trimalchio – a fictional character, a very rich and vulgar person from ‘The Satyricon’ by Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Roman author
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quart – measure of liquid capacity equal to 1.13 litre in Britain, and 0.94 litre in the USA
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mint julep – a drink of whisky mixed with water, sugar, mint and ice
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Mendelssohn – Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), German composer, conductor and pianist of the early Romantic period
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Memphis – a city in southwestern Tennessee on the border with Arkansas and Mississippi
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Kapiolani – a resort area in Honolulu, the capital and the main port of Hawaii
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Atlantic City – a resort city on the Atlantic coast in southeastern New Jersey
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Montreal – a city in southeastern Canada, the capital of Quebec province
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‘Beale Street Blues’ – a song by W. C. Handy (1873–1958), Afro-American composer who integrated blues into ragtime music
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Hempstead – a town in the west-central part of Long Island in New York state
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Southampton – a town along the shore of eastern Long Island in southeastern New York state
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coroner – an official who investigates the cases of violent or suspicious death
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James J. Hill (1838—1916) – America financier and founder of Great Northern Railway Company (1890)
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Hopalong Cassidy – a fictional cowboy created by Clarence E. Mulford (1883–1917), who later appeared in a number of American TV series, westerns and radio programs
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‘Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on’ – a line from the poem ‘Rain’ by Edward Thomas (1878–1917), English writer, critic, essayist and poet
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the Ohio – the major river of the east-central United States, one of the tributaries of the Mississippi River
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El Greco – byname of Domenikos Theotokopoulos (1541–1614), Spanish painter, sculptor and architect of Greek origin, one of the greatest dramatic painters of all time
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fêtes = holiday, festival
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the French Riviera – the Mediterranean coast between Cannes in France and the border with Italy
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Hôtel des Étrangers = Hotel for Foreigners (
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the Maures – mountains in southeastern France, the part of the Maritime Alps that separate the Riviera from Provence
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Provençal France – Provence, a historical and cultural region in southeastern France
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French windows – large windows serving as windows and doors opening to the balcony or a garden
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Buick – a car of the Buick line, named for David Buick (1854–1929), the first American automobile manufacturer and the founder of the Buick Manufacturing Company
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Victorian England – England in 1837–1901 at the times of Queen Victoria (1819–1901)
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monocle – a single eyeglass held by the muscles around the eye
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a pair of tights – a man’s bathing-suit of the first decades of the 20th century
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flotte = fleet