The Twelve Chairs
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780810114845 (0810114844)
Publish date: April 2nd 1997
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Pages no: 395
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Classics,
Novels,
Humor,
Funny,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Russia,
Russian Literature
Series: Ostap Bender (#1)
Almost ten years after the Russian Revolution, Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobryaninov has put his past as an aristocrat behind him. Unlike most of his class, he as managed to avoid the gulag or execution. He works as a low-level bureaucrat in a provincial town. He doesn’t have much to complain about othe...
I'm almost ashamed for not enjoying this book a lot more, but I suppose I've read it too late. The beginning was one of the funniest I've come across in a long time, there were hilarious moments when I laughed out loud, the plot was really well crafted at times and it had some interesting insights i...
Director: Mel BrooksRon Moody ... Ippolit Vorobyaninov Frank Langella ... Ostap Bender Dom DeLuise ... Father Fyodor Andréas Voutsinas ... Nikolai Sestrin Diana Coupland ... Madame Bruns
Foreword and NotesTranslator's Introduction--The Twelve ChairsTranslator's Notes
Foreword and NotesTranslator's Introduction--The Twelve ChairsTranslator's Notes