Seven wives of a blue beard

The book "seven wives of the blue beard" of the Nobel laureate Anatoly France was published in 1909. All short stories are built on a fabulous or legendary plot. But the most amazing miracles do not withstand reality: the finished villain Blue beard turns out to be simpler, at the court of a sleeping beauty, petty intrigues reign, waking her beautiful prince - only "princes with pretty antennae", resurrected by Saint Nicholas, boys turn into a robber, a trap and a heretic. And nothing in the world is able to convince the sober epicurean of Bulengren in the existence of fairies. But the eternal issues that concern each person are solved in the short stories unexpectedly and elegant. Isn"t self -self -forgetfulness happiness? Can a vice become a virtue? Is a rich man always happy? And how to be loved?