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The Twelve Chairs

The Twelve Chairs

by Ilia Arnoldovich Ilf  •  Yevgeny Petrov

  • LITERATURE
  • 1997
  • PAPER
  • 395 PAGES

In this classic satirical novel, originally published in English in 1930 as Diamonds to Sit On (and made into a Mel Brooks movie), an unemployed con artist and a former nobleman in pre-Stalinist Soviet Russia travel from Moscow to Georgia on a wild goose chase in search of chairs containing hidden jewels.  (RUS356, $22.00)


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