'Carps and Pikes. The Stories of the Last Day'' is a work by the Russian writer - satirist, «the king of laugh» and theatre critic A. T. Averchenko (1881 - 1925). The collection is compiled not only with the humorous stories, we can laugh at, but also with those in which you can see the burning issue of that time. The soft author's humor goes with the poignant satire, and funny domestic sketches -...