"Lonely People" is a tragic-poetic novel by Oleksandr Oles about lost love, loneliness and the eternal search for happiness. The main character, the young son of a merchant, falls in love with a tailor's daughter, but cruel reality and social conventions fall on their relationship. Filled with inner reflections and permeated with motifs of reflection on fate and choice, the book attracts attention with its mastery of language and the depth of the characters' experiences. "Lonely People" is a work that leaves a mark in the soul of everyone who reads it, reminding that the most valuable thing in the world is spiritual harmony and the ability to fall in love.