The Twelve Chairs (European Classics) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 4 days | |Short Description for The Twelve Chairs 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 pro...
Full description- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Published: 02 April 1997
- Format: Paperback 395 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction | Classics
- ISBN 13: 9780810114845 ISBN 10: 0810114844
- Sales rank: 322,780
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Full description for The Twelve Chairs
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.
