"A Stream from the City Pump" is a short narrative work by the famous American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this fairy-tale story, the main character is an old villager, a city pump, who tells about various events that took place in the surrounding world. Hawthorne successfully combines philosophical reflections, social criticism and humor in this text, revealing the unique world of the city pump and its relationship with the city's residents. This book leaves the reader with a simple and profound sense of harmony between humans and nature. "A trickle from the city pump" is an invigorating, thought-provoking work that leaves behind a feeling of purity of thought.