Green wrote “about storms, ships, love—accepted and rejected, about fate, the secret paths of the soul, and the meaning of chance.” In the features of his heroes there is firmness and tenderness, and the names of his heroines sound like music. In his books, Green created a romantic world of human happiness.
“Scarlet Sails” is a tender poem about love—a Green-like “strange” book, written passionately and sincerely, in which the fairy tale of scarlet sails, cherished in Asсol’s heart—the princess of dreams—becomes reality, becoming true, as if it were a tale. A truth that itself looks like a fairy tale.
“Scarlet Sails” (1923) and “The Running Waves” (1928) are wonderful romantic-fantastic stories that have been stirring the hearts of young readers for almost a hundred years.