Two little masterpieces of Торнтона Уайлдера, two classic works of American prose of the XX century!"March ides" - the best from works Уайлдера. Caesar and Cleopatra, Катулл and his beloved Клодия Пульхра and other participants of the events preceded to tragic death of Caesar, appear before us. But foremost it a novel about two motive forces of human life is passions and Роке. In fact passion - always obsession, and an obsession is an instrument of Fate.The "bridge of king Lui Святого" carries a reader to Latin America of beginning of XVIII of century, where philosopher-monk brother Юнипер investigates the circumstances of catastrophe, carrying away lives of five very different people - adventurer, legendary actress, authoress-duchess, her young maid and young man from the bottoms of society.