The period of the late 19th - early 20th centuries is one of the brightest in the history of literature, when a number of masterpieces of poetry and prose appeared, both from the classical direction and from various modernist ones that were emerging at that time. Many of these masterpieces, due to the narrow-mindedness of the ruling communist ideology with its cult of socialist realism, remained little or completely unknown to domestic literature lovers. The next issue of the “Literary Gallery” series to some extent fills this gap. We present to our readers one of the best works of the practically unknown Austrian Peter Altenberg, a leading representative of such an interesting literary movement as impressionism (Vienna Studies, 1904), and the first mature work of the master of world literature, the author of the brilliant "Ulysses" by the Irishman James Joyce ( collection of short stories “Dubliners”, 1914), interesting in that it combines, in addition to impressionism, a number of other literary techniques, bringing their author close to the discovery of the literary device “stream of consciousness”. (The collection of short stories by James Joyce “Dubliners” is not included in this file). The publication is accompanied by a detailed preface and commentary, illustrated with drawings of samples of European costume from the time of creation of the works included in it and color reproductions of paintings by leading representatives of such a movement of post-impressionism as divisionism, or pointillism (Georges Seurat , Paul Signac and others). Compilation, introduction and afterword by A. I. Kozubov.