The Complete Adventures of Ostap Bender: The Twelve Chairs / The Golden Calf
by Ilya Ilf, Evgeny Petrov
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The famous collection of Ilf and Petrov created the inimitable rogue and confidence man, Ostap Bender, whose adventures, with their frequent satiric thrusts at Soviet life, have become classics of Russian comic literature. In the first novel, The Twelve Chairs (1928), Bender searches for a hoard of jewels concealed in a set of dining-room chairs. show more In the second, The Little Golden Calf (1931), set in the Soviet Union under the first Five-Year Plan, Bender tries hard but fails to become a millionaire. A six-month car trip in 1935--36 through the United States resulted in a witty travelogue. The collaboration was broken by Ilf's untimely death from tuberculosis. Petrov was killed in a plane crash while working as a war correspondent. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Complete Adventures of Ostap Bender: The Twelve Chairs / The Golden Calf
- People/Characters
- Ostap Bender
- Dedication*
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Валентину Петровичу Катаеву - First words*
- В уездном городе N было так много парикмахерских заведений и бюро похоронних процессий, что казалось, жители города рождаю... (show all)ся лишь затем, чтобы побриться, остричься, освежить голову вежеталем и сразу же умереть.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Придется переквалифицироваться в управдомы.
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- This entry represents omnibus editions of "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Golden Calf", which was published in English as "The Complete Adventures of Ostap Bender".
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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- 891.7 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages
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- PZ3 .I25 .C — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
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