A person who did not believe in happiness. Jerome K.J.

For Russian readers, the name of Jerome K. Jerome is the embodiment of the English humor and is inextricably linked with the brilliant novel “Three in the boat, not counting the dog”, translated into dozens of languages ​​and repeatedly filmed. Meanwhile, the writer's work includes other novels, plays, humorous essays and novels, which sometimes undeservedly remain in the shadow of his famous masterpiece.

This edition presents Jerome's stories, most of which are published in new translations; Initially, these works saw light in literary London magazines, and then were published in the form of separate collections: “Stories told after dinner” (1891), “John Ingerfield” and other stories ”(1894),“ Studies in lavender tones, blue and blue and blue Green "(1897). Along with hilariously funny stories, in which the sparkling author of the novel “Three in the Board” is easily guessed, there are also those that open new facets in the writer's work. According to the author, they were written “not to cause laughter,” and turned to the secrets of the subconscious and paradoxes of the human soul, our hidden desires and fears, as well as to the subtle face that separates us from the world of inexplicable and strange phenomena.