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Full-cast dramatisations and a reading of works by Iris Murdoch, plus a bonus interview with the author herself Booker Prize-winning author Iris Murdoch is renowned for her sublime fiction, exploring themes such as art, passion, morality and human freedom. Included in this collection are...

The narrator, Zaleukos, a native of Constantinople, studied medicine in Paris and, following his father's death, develops a successful business as a travelling merchant and healer. Arriving in Florence, he sets up shop as usual. But after he has been in town a few days, he finds a small handwritten note from an unknown stranger, asking to meet him at midnight on the Ponte Vecchio. Curious, he goes to the bridge in question, but ends up tussling with the stranger and comes away with the man's red cloak.

Nastojashhee izdanie znakomit detej s proizvedenijami zamechatel'nogo nemeckogo pisatelja-romantika Vil'gel'ma Gaufa (1802–1827). V nego voshli volshebnye skazki: "Rasskaz ob otrublennoj ruke", "Spasenie Fatimy" i "Malen'kij Muk". Ego misticheskie, inogda grustnye skazki proniknuty duhom Vostoka, no v to zhe vremja, lisheny obychnoj vostochnoj mishury.