The Shining World

"The Shining World" is arguably one of Green's most luminous works, where fiction intersects with truth, where good walks side by side with evil, where things that at first glance seem like invention and fantasy turn out upon closer examination to be allegories of the highest human aspirations — desires and dreams of eternal happiness, soaring above all that is earthly and trivial, of infinite and pure love. Alexander Grin is one of the most brilliant Russian writers, who counted himself among the Symbolists. He lived a difficult life, full of struggle and torment, which was reflected in his work and crystallized into an unusual, elevated, beautiful, and romantic style.