Contributions

  • Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942. - Contributor

Publication

1965 - Frederick Muller Limited, London, England

Language

English

Word Count

80,500 words, Guess

Page Count

322 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCPG'3476'I44'D914'1993

Description

"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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Vintage Russian library -- V-727.

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  • The twelve chairsFrederick Muller Limited1965-01-01
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