Spanish gardener. Tree Judas. Kronin A.

Consul Harrington Brand did not have either personal life or career. Having received an insignificant post in a small Spanish town, he moves there with his son Nicholas. The selfish and imperious father does not allow the boy to see his mother, under the pretext of poor health, does not let him into school and does not allow to communicate with peers. And therefore, Nicholas quickly makes friendship with the young friendly gardener Jose. Feeling that his son was getting out of his hard control, the angry Harrington Brand goes to dubious measures to break the friendship of Nicholas and Jose... David Mori, the Scottish doctor, lives in Switzerland and is respected in society. He is considered a ball of fate. However, for many years, Mori has been suffering from insomnia, he has been pursued by memories of the woman whom he once loved, but quit. Unable to correct the mistakes of youth, he destroys himself again and again, breaks the fate of the women dear to him and brings the inevitable tragedy...

the novels “Spanish gardener” (for the first time in Russian) and the “Tree of Judas” are written in an excellent narrative manner of classic works of Cronin.