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The Twelve Chairs

✍ Scribed by Ilf, Ilya; Petrov, Yevgeny

Book ID
110191346
Publisher
Readers Union / The Science Fiction Book Club via PublishDrive
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Weight
199 KB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis

This is absolutely amazing humorous detective story.The plot of The Twelve Chairs is very simple. The mother-in-law of a former nobleman named Vorobyaninov discloses on her deathbed a secret: she hid her diamonds in one of the family’s chairs that subsequently was appropriated by the Soviet authorities. Vorobyaninov is joined by a young crook named Ostap Bender with whom he forms a partnership, and together they proceed to locate these chairs. The partners have a competitor in the priest Vostrikov, who has also learned of the secret from his dying parishioner.The competing treasure-hunters travel throughout Russia in searching of treasure. The events described in the novel are set in 1927, that is, toward the end of the period of the New Economic Policy, which was characterized by a temporary truce between the Soviet regime’s Communist ideology and limited private enterprise in commerce, industry and agriculture.

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