For the first time in Russian, the famous duology of Archibald Cronin! “A Song of Six Pence and a Pocket of Wheat” - the first two lines of the famous English song, as well as the names of no less famous two works by Archibald Cronin, created in the best traditions of the “novels of education” by Dickens and Balzac and Flaubert. The story about the fate of a young man from Scotland, dreamy, ambitious and naive, reflected many autobiographical facts from the life of the author. Cronin narrates his adventures, victories and defeats, losses and gains, loves and disappointments with warm humor and with that heartfelt, compassionate and empathetic realism that distinguishes his original creative style. The reader will encounter here the same vivid narrative gift that marks and The author's other novels have become modern classics, such as Castle Brody, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel and many others.