Twelve Chairs. The Golden Calf

Ilya Ilf (1897-1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (1903-1942) were classics of Russian satirical prose and co-authors of legendary novels that created one of the most striking and witty characters in Russian literature: Ostap Bender, the "e;great schemer,"e; a man of indefatigable wit, ingenuity, and irony. This volume includes both of these writers' famous works "e;The Twelve Chairs"e; (1928) and "e;The ...