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This book is dedicated to all those who love the novel "The Gadfly", love its hero and themselves strive to become a fighter for the happiness of all mankind. This book tells about the fate of the writer and the fate of his novel, about how we found the author of "The Gadfly" - Ethel Lilian Voynich, about why she was forgotten in her homeland and how it happened that only at the end of her days she learned about her world fame, unknown to her until then. This book tells about the remarkable life of E.-L. Voynich, about her friends - Russian and Polish revolutionaries. About how the novel "The Gadfly" was created and why this work by an English writer about an Italian revolutionary found its home in Russia. In this book, the reader will find many portraits of E.-L. Voynich, her family and friends, will see the first page of the manuscript of “The Gadfly” and an appeal to Soviet youth, written by the hand of its author.