The book includes three collections of short stories by the famous “King of Humor”: “Children,” “Unclean Power,” and “Pantheon of Advice for Young People.” Each of these collections is written in the original style, devoted to a specific theme, and from different angles shows the talent of this amazingly open and well-knit Russian writer.
“Children.” One of Arkady Averchenko’s favorite and main themes, in which he felt himself an unrivaled specialist.
The collection of stories “Unclean Power” is steeped in pain for the fatherland destroyed by the Bolsheviks; it burns with sharp, biting sarcasm toward them, and is inspired by sincere confidence that the nightmare unfolding in their homeland is only a bad dream that is about to end.
And the title of the third story collection in this audiobook—“The Pantheon of Advice for Young People, or the Truest Ways to Succeed in Life”—speaks for itself: no matter how hard school and teachers try to instill in their students the sciences and diligence, all these efforts turn out to be useless in simple everyday situations.