This book includes three of the most popular plays of the late Russian playwright Eugene L. Shvarts. Like, for example, his contemporary - late Czech playwright Karel Capek, he is considered worldwide to be the author of classical pieces. It means that his plays (the best of them) are having double lives: one-in time of their appearance, and another in our time (or any time in the future, when they still wouldn't be obsolete and forgotten). The three plays included in this book - Dragon, Shadow, Ordinary Miracle have been never before translated into English. The author of translation - Anna V. Epelbaum is happy to have an opportunity to give English reading audience the great pleasure to become familiar with the inheritance of Eugene L. Shvarts.

Read, enjoy, and be grateful to the translator.