Robert Irvine (born 1946), famous English writer, medievalist historian, Oxford graduate, specialist in the history of the Middle Ages in the Arab and Middle East. This volume of the first collected works of the writer in Russia consists of the novels “Algerian Secrets” (1988) and “The Limits of the Visible” (1986). The war for the liberation of Algeria in the 1950s, shown without embellishment almost from the inside and at the same time a parody of “spy novels” in the spirit of James Bond, is what the novel “Algerian Secrets” is about. A housewife slowly losing her mind, caught in the web of English customs and morality, is the heroine of The Limits of the Visible, rewriting The Brothers Karamazov...