Stephen Vincent Benet is a classic of American literature, twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the flesh of the flesh of that brightest generation that gave us Fitzgerald, Hemingway and Faulkner. As a master of the paradoxically ironic short story, he undoubtedly inherits O. Henry, and often uses historical, folklore, and fantasy plots. The distant or recent past appears to him as a revived realm of fantasy. Here, on the American frontier, the plots of ancient mythology are played out, the US Secretary of State can compete in court with the devil himself for the soul of a farmer neighbor, a retired major of the French artillery can fantasize on the waters about conquering the world, a visiting European celebrity can conduct a tail, a barefoot saint can give up her name, and an Irish leprechaun can help build a railroad. . . The story "The Devil and Daniel Webster" has been repeatedly filmed: in 1941, William Dieterle's Oscar-winning film was released, and the 2004 version became Alec Baldwin's directorial debut. The story "Crying Wives" became the basis for Stanley Donen's famous film musical "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" (1954), which was nominated for five Oscars and won one. "The Land where there is no Death" is the most representative collection of S. V. Bene's works in the world: the book includes all his author's collections, one novel and a number of short stories that were not previously included in the collections.