Pretender to the Throne: Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (European Classics)
This hilarious novel follows the continuing adventures of the simple peasant Ivan Chonkin, who has been arrested as a traitor to the motherland after spending World War II happily tending a garden. Lacking evidence against him, the bumbling bureaucrats base their case on a rumor in his home...
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This hilarious novel follows the continuing adventures of the simple peasant Ivan Chonkin, who has been arrested as a traitor to the motherland after spending World War II happily tending a garden. Lacking evidence against him, the bumbling bureaucrats base their case on a rumor in his home village that he is the illegitimate son of a prince. the comic case of mistaken identity escalates as they accuse this unlikely prince of working in league with Hitler to restore the monarchy.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780810112445 (0810112442)
Publish date: March 29th 1995
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Pages no: 358
Edition language: English
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