Signs of genuine art are endowed with the best works of Lyon Feichtwanger . In his novels, plays, and poems, there is no direct and immediate depiction of the social ulcers of capitalism. He gained fame mainly as an author of historical novels, but in reality only one modernity imperiously and inevitably attracted his attention. The most significant works of Feichtwanger, in which the truth of our century clearly emerges, can rightly be attributed to the conquests of modern democratic art. His legacy will attract the attention of readers for a long time .. The first volume includes the works: "The World", "1918", "The Ugly Duchess" .