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Name: The Twelve Chairs

Authors: Ilya Ilf, Evgeni Petrov
Year: 1927
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Classic, Humor, Adventure
Culture: Russia

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ISBNs:
9780810114845
9780810127722
0810114844
0810127725

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.

This book is part of the "Ostap Bender" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"The Golden Calf"
First published in 1931
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