The collection includes the best short stories and legends of the famous Austrian writer Stefan Zweig (1881-1942). These are works with a rapid movement of the plot, written in the name of justice, capturing the clashes of people with the bourgeois world, in which the power and power of evil dominates, the best qualities of a person are depreciated, the most expensive and pure feelings are vulgarized. The writer conveys the feeling of tension of the depicted life through the expressiveness of the passions of the characters.