About the book: 1960 / Charles Nodier is a very unique figure in the history of French literature. His literary work is inseparable from the history of French romanticism - at the same time, he has always stood among the French romantics apart. He was a contemporary of two literary “generations” of romanticism - and in fact did not belong to either of them. He was a kind of “pioneer” in romanticism - and always found himself, as it were, in opposition to the romantic literature of his time. “You have all... heard of the “drow” who inhabit the Shetland Islands, and of the elves or brownies of Scotland, and you all know that there is hardly a single village house in these countries that does not have its own house spirit among its inhabitants. Trilby was the youngest, the most amiable, the most charming of the household spirits. He would not leave Dougal's huts even for a whole kingdom, because he was in love with his wife, black-haired Gianni…»