From the author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Possess, as well as Children's Books and Angels and Insects, the first volume of a complete collection of short fiction, three collections of his own under one cover. "Wonders and Fantasies" reflects the "fairytale" side of the work of the Dame of the Order of the British Empire: "Fairy tales and the folklore tradition itself have occupied Byatt for a long time ("Possess" is evidence of this), but now we see that they were simply made for each other" (Financial Times). In these stories - “for all their apparent simplicity, surprisingly multi-layered and even allegorical” (Vogue) - “mystery breathes, passion lives, ancient magic pulsates” (Marie Claire). Here the princess can escape from her fairy tale, the snake-like Lamia living in the pool wants to turn into a woman, and the genie, who after many years of imprisonment has left the nightingale's eye glass bottle, transfers tennis player Boris Becker from the TV screen to a hotel room...For the first time in Russian!