Consul Harrington Brand had neither his personal life nor his career. Having received a minor post in a small Spanish town, he moves there with his son Nicholas. The selfish and domineering father does not allow the boy to see his mother, under the pretext of poor health, does not allow him to go to school and does not allow him to communicate with his peers. And so Nicholas quickly makes friends with the young, friendly gardener Jose. Feeling that his son is slipping out of his tight control, an angry Harrington Brand goes to dubious measures to break off the friendship between Nicholas and Jose... David Morey, a Scottish doctor, lives in Switzerland and is respected in society. He is considered the darling of fate. However, for many years Mori has been suffering from insomnia and is haunted by memories of the woman he once loved but abandoned. Unable to correct the mistakes of his youth, he destroys himself again and again, breaks the fates of the women dear to him and brings inevitable tragedy closer... The novels “The Spanish Gardener” (for the first time in Russian!) and “The Tree of Judas” are written in the beautiful narrative style of Cronin’s classic works.< /p>