For the first time in Russian translation, two novels: Chesterton’s youthful novel “Basil Howe,” discovered after a century of oblivion, is about humor in heaven, about friendship on earth, about eternal faith in one’s beliefs, and not in oneself, about clumsy innocence that does not will tremble before “brutal seriousness.” And a novel-burime, unfinished by members of the “Club of Beginning Debators”, the founder of which was Chesterton during his school years. A novel about the future, in which adult “disputants” rush across all continents, every now and then meeting and saving each other. And this fruit of friendly labors is recognizably Chesterton’s comeback novel.