The twelve Chairs. Golden calf. One -story America. Ilf I., Petrov E.

Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov are the famous feuilletonists and satirics of the first half of the 20th century. After the publication in 1928, the famous novel “Twelve Chairs” collapsed on its creators, prompted the co -authors of “resurrect” his hero, the cheerful and charming swindler of Ostap Bender, and take up the creation of the novel “The Golden Calf” (1931). Today, everyone knows these novels, they have long dispersed to quotes and withstood hundreds of successful reprints. In the real book, in addition to the novels “Twelve Chairs” and “Golden Calf”, the famous cycle of essays “One -story America”, the last work of Ilf and Petrov about their journey through the United States of America, full of interesting stories and observations.