Красный цветок
By Всеволод Михайлович Гаршин (1855—1888)
Cover: Roter Mohn am Seeufer (Red Poppies at the Lakeshore), circa 1905 by Karl Hagemeister (1848–1933) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
A madman in an asylum becomes convinced that the red poppies in the garden hold all the evil of the world and resolves to pluck them. Garshin's short tale is a moving study of illness and self-sacrifice.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.