About the book: 2015 / The book includes 45 essays that first appeared in 2012-2013 in the columns of the newspaper "Ukraine Moloda" in the "Lessons" section of literature by Leonid Ushkalov". In them, the author raises a number of issues important for every person: happiness, freedom, love, truth, poetry, loneliness... And the heroes of the essays are well-known classics, in particular Skovoroda, Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, Shevchenko, Gogol, Drahomanov, Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Kobylyanska, Vynnychenko, Khvylovy, Johansen, Malanyuk, Dovzhenko, Yanovsky, and much less well-known authors: Krymsky, Shpol, Bureviy, Chernov, Teliga, Livytska-Kholodna and others. Written in a vivid journalistic style, these "lessons" indisputably testify to one thing: the Ukrainian literary tradition from ancient times to today is rich, colorful and extremely interesting..