About the book: 1974 / Library of modern foreign fiction. Volume 1 additional. The modern progressive American writer Clifford Simak in his novel “The City,” which received the Hugo Award, talks about the quests, mistakes, hopes, achievements of Man, and about his creation of a new civilization on Earth - the civilization of intelligent Dogs. The novel touches on the moral problems of a new Man, a new society, a society that has renounced wars and murders. CONTENTS: From the compiler... 5. Commentary on the first legend... 8.I. CITY... 10. Commentary on the second legend... 38.II. DEN... 39. Commentary on the third legend... 59.III. CENSUS... 60.Commentary to the fourth legend... 90.IV. DESERTATION... 91.Commentary to the fifth legend... 104.V. PARADISE... 105.Commentary to the sixth legend... 129.VI. ENTERTAINMENT... 130.Commentary to the seventh legend... 167.VII. ESOP... 168. Commentary on the eighth legend... 201.VIII. THE SIMPLE WAY... 202. The Webster Saga (afterword). Vsevolod Revich ... 225. Bibliography… 235.