The twelve chairs
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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20th century, 1917-1970, 1917-1936Showing 5 featured editions. View all 57 editions?
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English translation originally published: New York : Random House, 1961.
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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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