The Twelve Chairs. The Golden Calf

Ilya Ilf (1897–1937) and Yevgeny Petrov (1903–1942) were classics of Russian satirical prose and co-authors of legendary novels that created one of the most striking and witty characters in Russian literature: Ostap Bender, the "great schemer," a man of indefatigable wit, ingenuity, and irony. This volume includes both of these writers' famous works—"The Twelve Chairs" (1928) and "The Golden Ca...