London: First Sphere Books Edition, 1971. — 285 p. First English Language edition: 1961 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...
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...
First published in the U.S.S.R. 1936. Little Golden America. First published in England in 1944. Translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth This is one of the most popular books ever published in the Soviet Union. It remains popular in Russia today. We Americans cannot figure out what makes it so popular. It is a good book, interesting and well written, but does not...
Open Letter, Rochester, NY, 2009. — 289 p. Translation by Helen Anderson and Konstantin Gurevich. The Golden Calf was written in 1929-1931 and first serialized in a popular magazine in 1931. It is generally considered a sequel to the authors’ earlier work, The Twelve Chairs (1928), although the two novels share only the chief protagonist, Ostap Bender. He was killed at the end...
Open Letter, Rochester, NY, 2009. — 289 p. Translation by Helen Anderson and Konstantin Gurevich. The Golden Calf was written in 1929-1931 and first serialized in a popular magazine in 1931. It is generally considered a sequel to the authors’ earlier work, The Twelve Chairs (1928), although the two novels share only the chief protagonist, Ostap Bender. He was killed at the end...
Open Letter, Rochester, NY, 2009. — 289 p. Translation by Helen Anderson and Konstantin Gurevich. The Golden Calf was written in 1929-1931 and first serialized in a popular magazine in 1931. It is generally considered a sequel to the authors’ earlier work, The Twelve Chairs (1928), although the two novels share only the chief protagonist, Ostap Bender. He was killed at the end...
Open Letter, Rochester, NY, 2009. — 289 p. Translation by Helen Anderson and Konstantin Gurevich. The Golden Calf was written in 1929-1931 and first serialized in a popular magazine in 1931. It is generally considered a sequel to the authors’ earlier work, The Twelve Chairs (1928), although the two novels share only the chief protagonist, Ostap Bender. He was killed at the end...
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...
Translated by Anne Fisher. — Northwestern University Press, — 574 p. — (Northwestern World Classics). — ISBN10: 0810127725; ISBN13: 978-0810127722. Winner of 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation . More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petrov’s Russian classic fully to...
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