Convenience to have a tail. Short stories and essays

Jerome Clapka Klapka Jerome (1859-1927)-British humorrhist, playwright.
Jerome was born in the industrial English city of Walsall, the county of Staffordshire, the fourth child in the family of merchants of the merchants of Jerome Clap (Clapka - tribute to the hero of the Hungarian Revolution Diedra Klapka).
At the age of 14, young Jerome was forced to quit his studies - his father died bankrupt, and the boy became the main minister of the family. For four years he worked for London and North Western Railway, collecting coal along the railways. Then he went to the actors, was a teacher, a packer, a lawyer secretary, but could not find his place. However, it was an unsuccessful acting, later described in the short story on stage and behind the scene, that brought him the first success and good fee. A collection of stories "idle thoughts of an idle person" secured the status. Two years later, in 1888, Jerome married, and the newlyweds spent the honeymoon on the Thamza River, in a small boat. Returning, Jerome took up the manuscript with inspiration - soon the story “Three in the boat, not counting the dog”, whose glory was deafening, the story was reprinted and mixes people around the world today.
Subsequently, Jerome became the constant author of the famous satirical magazine "Punch", the editor of the magazine Idler ("Lazyi"), where Redjard Kipling, and his own edition - to -day ("Today") He released two dozen plays, several novels and hundreds of stories.
In 1899, Jerome K. Jerom visited Russia and wrote the article "Russians, how I know them", where he predicted the revolution: "Russians make an impression of a resort people to a foreigner, but, having taken a closer look, a foreigner is apparent that it is obvious that it is obvious that In the depths of Russian nature, a tendency to monstrous acts lurked. "