The book includes two novels by Claude Prosper Joliot Crebillon-son (1707-1777), the author of a large number of works that enjoyed scandalous popularity and simply great readership in the 18th century. Drawing a French secular society, frankly and boldly depicting its moral decline, loss of ideals, pursuit of the most sophisticated delights, in the first novel (1734) the writer took advantage of the then fashionable Orientalism and described the amusing love failures of a prince from a certain enchanted kingdom. In the second novel (1742), the debunking of the noble "libertinage" reaches a special sharpness and strength. Although here Krebillon inventively and wittily clothes representatives of secular society in pseudo-oriental clothes.