One day, four friends decided to write a novel. It's a small matter to figure out what it's going to be about! But the more they indulged in arguments about which ideas deserved a place in the book and what their main character would be, the more they forgot about the true purpose of their meetings. And now they have turned into an exchange of funny, touching, and sometimes sad stories about why you never need to give advice on how to properly starve cockroaches and whether to make whiskey punch... This edition also includes the work "Henry's Observations" about a shrewd waiter who witnessed a lot during his service. romantic stories and ready to tell the reader about them ... — A classic of world literature.— The standard of British humor. For all fans of P.G. Woodhouse's work.— From the author of the novel "Three in a boat, not counting the dog."— Jerome K. Jerome is a prominent British writer of the turn of the XIX—XX centuries, satirist, journalist and regular contributor to Punch magazine.— Two works by the author under one cover at once.