Hyperboloid engineer Garina. Black gold. Tolstoy A.N.

It is no secret that A.N. Tolstoy remade almost all his works many times, for various reasons, and far from always the “canonical” options were the most complete and, we take the courage to assert the most interesting.

In this volume, the Prestige Buk publishing house is two novels at the reader’s court, the initial editions of which are almost unknown today.

The fantastic-adventure novel “The Hyperboloid Engineer Garin” is published in the earliest edition , from the magazine "Red Nov". For the first time since 1926, the most complete text of the work falls on the pages of the book. The author’s alternative ending of the novel-“Garin-Dictator” printed in the journal is also presented. A unique feature: the text complements the almost complete set of all lifetime illustrations for the novel, created by the efforts of three artists-Isaac Grinstein, Lev Smekhov and Vladimir Kozlinsky.

The documentary-detective novel “Black Gold” was also rewritten many times, The most complete, first version of the novel was forgotten by the publishers and was not printed for more than 90 years, since 1931. In this edition of Black Gold, it has been reproduced according to the text of the New World magazine, in addition, a complete set of rare illustrations of Yuri Gershkovich, the only artist, is printed. Who created the drawings for this work.

about the interesting details of the “literary cuisine” by A. N. Tolstoy, the history of the creation and reasons for the numerous processing of the text of these works is told by the afterword of A. Bernikov.