Книга для чтения содержит романтические повести на русском языке с проставленными ударениями, а также с комментариями на английском.

Russian romantic prose is unique and has preserved its aesthetic value to thisday. Themost important achievements of romanticism, its ideas of the worth and significance of the free personality, the greatness and beauty of human feelings, its noble humanism, its attention to the national traditions, the heroisation of the strong person who sacrifices himself in every way for the com­mun good, provided the means to overcome tho abstrac­tion and didacticism of neo-classical literature, beneficially influencing the further development of Russian letters and enriching them with new artistic descriptive methods.