London: First Sphere Books Edition, 1971. - 285 c.
First English Language edition: 1961
The translator is not specified.
Meet Ostap Bender, conman, vagabond, liar, thief, cheat and self appointed scourge of Russia’s slogan-mouthing bureaucrats. To track down a fortune in jewels, sewn into the seat of a chair by Vorobyaninov’s deceased mother-in-law.
There are 12 identical chairs. and they are scattered far and wide throughout the Soviet Union
Ostap Bender and his cronies set out on a hilarious mission of discovery which threatens to bring bureaucracy to its knees. First published in Russia in 1928, The Twelve Chairs is a brilliant satire.
Ilya Arnoldovich Ilf (1897-1937) and Yevgenii Petrovich Katayev (1903-1942) - The writers who used the pen names Ilf and Petrov were natives of Odessa.