About the book: year / The novel was written by Feuchtwanger in America and first published in English translation in 1943 by The Viking Press under the title "Double, double, toil and trouble" (words of the chorus of the witches' song from Shakespeare's Macbeth). In the manuscript the novel was called “The Miracle Worker,” but already in the first German edition, published in 1944 in London (Hamilton Publishing House), the book bears the title “The Lautensack Brothers.” In Russian translation, the novel appeared in the magazine “Foreign Literature” NN 1–3 for 1957.