The third volume of A. Fet's Works and Letters in 20 volumes includes literary prose - stories and novellas of different years and critical articles in which the poet formulated the foundations of his aesthetic views and with which he became involved in the ideological and aesthetic debates of the second half of the 19th century. For the first time in the corpus of works, the aphorisms of Fet, the master of this strict, laconic form of expressing the artist’s thoughts, are published.