About the book: 1982 / The satirical story "The Highly Honorable Beggars", written in 1888, is essentially a dramatic work converted into prose. Defining the idea of ​​his story, Hakob Paronyan says that he created it “out of the desire to show future generations the deplorable existence of intellectuals: our time and the terrible indifference of moneybags to national culture.” Hakob Paronyan (1843–1891) is the largest Armenian satirist writer who has made a significant contribution contribution to the development of critical realism in Armenian literature, author of the comedies “The Oriental Dentist”, “Flatterer”, “Uncle Bagdasar”, “Dowry”, etc., in which the vices of the contemporary bourgeois society were ridiculed.