In heritage of modern classic John Фаулза - maybe, the greatest British writer of the XX century - a novel "Pupa" occupies the special place. In fact this his creative testament. In the last large work author of the known worldwide best sellers "Collector", "Magus", "Mistress of the French lieutenant", "Daniel Martin" and "Tower, from an ebony" inlaid all accumulated intellectual and spiritual luggage, all sharp-cut decades mastery.Roman is published in new translation. Moreover - he first goes out in Russian fully: translated and intertwined in novel fabric fragments of chronicle section of the London monthly of "Джентльменз мэгэзин", that is not only folded in the picturesque panorama of epoch but also contain the key to possible solution of what be going on.And what be going on in a novel - misterioso to the utmost. Who "мистер was Bartholomew" and what aim was pursued by him by the May day 1736 year in the deaf corner of Western England? Where did he disappear, and by whom actually there were his companions? Landscape of old England, detective plot with the elements of mysticism, ingenious love affairs and mysterious incidents Фаулзу serve by a magnificent background for deep psychological research, in that he exposes themes so characteristic for his work, : relativity of cognition and truths, borders of human freedom, historical roots of modern civilization.