The famous Russian writer Vladimir Fedorovich Tendryakov is the author of a number of acute conflict stories about the village, spiritual and moral problems of Soviet society. Here is the hero of one of them - “Not for the Court” (filmed in 1955 under the title “Alien Relatives”, directed by Mikhail Schweitzer, starring Nikolai Rybnikov, Nona Mordyukova, Leonid Bykov) - tractor driver Fedor could not have imagined before marrying Stesha, how stuffy and cramped it will be in the mothballed little world of her parents. A true Komsomol member, he sincerely cared about his native collective farm and did not reconcile himself with their hidden hatred of the collective farm. Quarrels arose between the young people and a moment came when life became unbearable. Not receiving support from his wife, Fyodor left home... The book also includes the stories “Sixty Candles” about human conscience, inseparable from the consciousness of civic duty, and “Reckoning” about the lack of a full-fledged spiritual basis in the upbringing and education of our children. Contents: Not welcome ReckoningSixty candles