The best things written by the English writer Edith Nesbit are fairy tales. Nesbit expands the traditional boundaries of the genre, introducing elements of detective fiction, mythology and science fiction into the tale. The writer often transfers the action of her works to an environment that is well known to readers; her characters live and act surrounded by modern everyday realities. It is this interweaving of everyday life and the eternal magic of a fairy tale that gives Nesbit’s fairy tales subtle humor and unique flavor. In the fairy tale “Billy the King,” kings are hired. And the funniest thing is that the turnover of “staff” is quite strong, which drives prime ministers crazy, and kings, from the moment they take office, receive the entire set of knowledge at once - because there is simply no time for their training.