Pered vami sbornik proizvedeniy "Korolya smekha" – Arkadiya Averchenko. Ispol'zuya yumor polozheniy, Averchenko vossozdaet absurdnost' zhizni rossiyskogo obyvatelya, kotorogo predstavlyaet shirokoy galereey raznoobraznyh harakterov i tipov. Bogatye i bednye, molodye i starye, vse oni lovchat, hlopochut, stremyatsya chto-to urvat' ot zhizni. Naryadu s satiricheskimi zarisovkami, miniatyury Averchen...