... and not as a stranger is a romantic novel, very popular in its time, at the top of the list of best-selling novels in America in 1954. It was screened in 1955, produced and directed by the famous director Stanley Kramer.
He was too embarrassed to even think about the shame he would experience if he were caught voyeurizing. Voyeurs usually watch women undress... What he felt, what tormented him, was like a terrible thirst that he had to quench.
The novella was published for the first time in 1961 in the magazine Novij mir and aroused anger among critics, pointing out that it is only "about the narrow, intimate experiences of the heroine".
‘It was never just a game that reflected all human passion and hope and madness, and then it came true.’ ‘Okay,’ said the young man, ‘don’t say you weren’t warned.’
A tipsy cabaret dancer from the Picratt nightclub entered the police station and excitedly announced that she had heard two men at the next table in the bar conspire to kill a countess, an unknown countess.