This book continues the "Magic Lantern" series - fantasy, adventure, fairy tale. The adventures of Mikhail Kozyrev's heroes - from Swift's Gulliver to the mystical Crocodile - are unusual. This is both fantasy and sharp social satire - a bizarre, grotesque depiction of our life as the author imagined it, writing in the twenties and thirties. Many of his works are now being published for the first time.