12 Chairs. The Golden Calf. Expanded Illustrated Edition

Here is a collection of two outstanding novels by Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov: "The Twelve Chairs" and "The Golden Calf". These works became not only the pinnacle of Soviet satire, but also an expressive portrait of the 1920s and 1930s — a time of absurdity, hope, and human ingenuity. "The Twelve Chairs" is published in its entirety, without the censored cuts that accompanied the novel from the m...