For the first time in Russian - a new novel by E.-E. Schmitt's "Poison of Love". If in the first novel of the dilogy, “Elixir of Love,” we were talking about the relationships of adults, established people, about the inevitable damage that time causes to the most ardent feelings, then in the book, which received the title “Poison of Love,” the author looks at the the unique world of the first feeling. A little more than a year is left before graduation from school, but the young girlfriends - Julia, Rafael, Colomba and Anushka - care only about love. Each of them longs to meet their Romeo. Their diaries and correspondence are filled with thoughts about this. The friends are sure that they need to take a decisive step, crossing the line that separates them from the world of adults. And now Julia timidly admits that she did “this” in the summer. How will her decisive action respond? And will their friendship survive the trials ahead? And in general, what does the immortal Shakespeare have to do with it?! This edition also includes the famous play by E.-E. Schmitt "Hotel of Two Worlds."