The name of the brilliant English humorist Jerome K. Jerome (1859−1927) is known to everyone in our country, even those who have never leafed through his books, but watched the cult comedy “Three Men in a Boat, Not Counting a Dog.”Create such witty works full of good humor could only be produced by an observant, caring person with enormous literary talent, and his memoirs “My Life and Times” are proof of this. This book, like other works of the author, is impossible to read without a smile, but sometimes Jerome’s famous humor acquires shade of sadness. Remembering the past, the writer comes to the conclusion that the main “battle of life” is with himself, and not for himself...