The twelve chairs

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The twelve chairs

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
395

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Cover of: Dvenadtsat' stul'ev
Dvenadtsat' stul'ev
2003, Vagrius
Hardcover
Cover of: Dvenadcat' stul'ev
Dvenadcat' stul'ev
1999, Olimp, Izdatel'stvo AST
in Russian
Cover of: Dvenadt︠s︡atʹ stulʹev
Dvenadt︠s︡atʹ stulʹev
1997, "Vagrius"
in Russian
Cover of: The twelve chairs
The twelve chairs
1997, Northwestern University Press
in English
Cover of: The twelve chairs
The twelve chairs
1961-03, Vintage Books
in English - [1st Vintage ed.]

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Edition Notes

English translation originally published: New York : Random House, 1961.

Published in
Evanston, Ill
Series
European classics

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.73/42
Library of Congress
PG3476.I44, PG3476.I44 D913 1997, PG3476.I44D913 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii,395p. ;
Number of pages
395

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22339806M
Internet Archive
twelvechairs0000ilfi
ISBN 10
0810114844
LCCN
96029783
OCLC/WorldCat
36083502
Library Thing
183592
Goodreads
158516

Work 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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