To his considerable surprise, the author discovered that this year marks the nine-decade anniversary of his presence in this world. Such a serious date, in his opinion, should be presented in a cheerful book. He believes that this is the truest form of gratitude to life for lasting so long. The reader is offered the "Ironic Trilogy". It consists of the novels “The Temperance Man,” “The Whip,” and “The Testament of Grant.” As an afterword, they are concluded with some observations and considerations, united under the general title “Calendar Sheets.” According to the critic A. Ageev, Zorin’s “...“little novels” of recent years have become a sensation of their own - “Mr. Friend”, “Teetotaler”, “Whip”, “Shadow of the Word”, “Jupiter”, “Oblivion”, “Samsara” ", "Grand's Testament" - compare favorably with the main literary stream in the dynamics of the plot, the clarity of the composition, the clearly defined characters." Leonid Zorin (b. 1924) is a famous playwright and prose writer, author of the plays "Warsaw Melody", "Pokrovsky Gate", "The Tsar's hunting", as well as many other works.