The name of Jaroslav Hašek needs no advertising. For over 80 years, the world has been reading and rereading his novel about the adventures of the brave soldier Švejk. But not everyone knows that the creation of this book was preceded by a decade and a half of work in the genre of feuilleton and satirical short stories. Short and very funny stories written between 1910 and 1923 still haven’t lost their cheerfulness and charm. What’s more: some of them are just as relevant as they were three quarters of a century ago! And if, while listening to this audiobook, you never once smile, then, according to the recommendation of I. Ilf and E. Petrov: “You should be held strictly accountable under the article ‘failure to do one’s job with burglary’.”