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Book 1: The Kaidashev family Ivan Nechuy-Levytsky (1838-1918) was an outstanding Ukrainian realist writer who wrote more than fifty novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, and plays about folk life. The master of words aimed to explore the “untapped mines” of Ukrainian life as deeply as possible and create true images of people from all walks of life. The colorful characters, juicy humor, and bold combination of the tragic and the comic made Nechuy-Levytsky’s works real gems of Ukrainian prose. According to Ivan Franko, the novel “The Kaidashev Family” is one of the “best pieces of Ukrainian literature.” We meet the characters: Kaidash, his wife Marusia, and their two sons Karp and Lavrin at a crucial moment in the family’s existence, when the children grow up, choose their mates, and begin a new life. Book 2. The Garden of Gethsemane The novel The Garden of Gethsemane, written in 1950, made the name of Ivan Bahrianyi (1906-1963), a Ukrainian writer, poet, playwright, and political activist, famous throughout the world. It was one of the first works to strikingly portray the terrible nature of the Soviet regime during the years of mass repression. Behind every page of the novel is the pain and suffering, despair and hope of those who were crushed by Stalin’s ruthless death machine. Bahrianyi described what he himself had experienced and what he could not remain silent about. He largely endowed the protagonist of the novel with his own fate and his own character, which is the unwavering spirit and faith in the invincibility of goodness. His Andriy Chumak went through all the circles of hell and survived, did not break. And this makes him worthy of the high rank of a man. Book 3: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors The publication includes the best works by the talented Ukrainian writer, brilliant novelist, follower of Ivan Franko, master of words Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864-1913): Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, Horses Are Not to Blame, Intermezzo, Laughter, and others. Small in scope, but psychologically intense, the works in which the writer depicted vivid and true images belong to the highest achievements of Ukrainian classical prose.