The Twelve Chairs
of Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov, Maurice Friedberg (Introduction), John H.C. Richardson (Translation)
Series: Ostap Bender #1
Description
Ostap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities. The search for the bejeweled chairs takes these unlikely heroes from the provinces to Moscow to the wilds of Soviet Georgia and the Trans-caucasus mountains; on their quest they encounter a wide variety of characters: from opportunistic Soviet bureaucrats to aging survivors of the prerevolutionary propertied classes, each one more selfish, venal, and ineffective than the one before.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 395 pages
- Publisher Northwestern University Press
- Publication Date April 2nd 1997
- First Publication 10/28/28
- Language English
- ISBN 9780810114845
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['U.S.S.R.']
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