The twelve chairs
a novel
by Илья Арнольдович Ильф and Евгений Петрович Петров
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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.
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Fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Ficiton, Description and travel, Lost articles, Russian fiction, Satire, Fiction, humorous, general, Social life and customs, History, Swindlers and swindling, Jewelry, Lost articles--fiction, Russian fiction--20th century, Lost articles--ficiton, Pg3476.i44 d913 2011, 891.73/42People
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The Twelve Chairs
Sep 04, 2016, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
paperback
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Двенадцать стульев : роман / Dvenadcatʹ stulʹev : roman
2005, AST
Hardcover
in Russian
5170058705 9785170058709
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Dvenadtsatʹ stulʹev: Zolotoĭ telenok : romany
1994, "Dom"
in Russian
- Literaturno-khudozhestvennoe izd.
5852010944 9785852010940
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The twelve chairs: by Ilf & Petrov. Translated from the Russian by John H.C. Richardson. Introd. by Maurice Friedberg.
1961, Vintage Books
in English
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Двенадцать стульев. Золотой телёнок
1959, Gosudarstvennoe izd-vo khudozhestvennoĭ literatury
Hardcover
in Russian
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Dvenadcat stul'ev - The Twelve Chairs
Publish date unknown, The Planet
paperback
1910880272 9781910880272
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"Originally published in Russian under the title Dvenadtsat' Stul'ev in 1928."
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