There are popular science books, and there are fiction books. They are together in this book. The classics of fiction were left alone with the chemist Elena Nikolaevna Strelnikova, and she... disassembled their creations into their component parts. Moreover, the works did not lose because of this, but the reader won! After all, now we can not only enjoy the language, plot, images, but also understand how flint works in Andersen’s fairy tale, what could have been smeared on the face of Conan Doyle’s Hound of the Baskervilles, and how Tema Garin-Mikhailovsky risked by using matches incorrectly... We hope that such an unusual reading perspective will help lovers of natural sciences become interested in works of fiction, and “humanities” students will instill a love for chemistry. For middle school age.