The Twelve Chairs
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| Management number | 240605083 | Release Date | 2026/07/16 | List Price | US$7.94 | Model Number | 240605083 | ||
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<div><div> Long recognized as a timeless comic masterpiece—it inspired a Mel Brooks film a half century after its publication—<i>The </i><i>Twelve Chairs</i> appears now in a lively new translation by Anne O. Fisher. Fisher, the most gifted interpreter of Ilf and Petrov in the English language, balances fidelity to the text and the authors’ characteristic, deeply resonant humor. </div></div>
Winner, 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation
More faithful to the original text and its deeply resonant humor, this new translation of The Twelve Chairs brings Ilf and Petrov’s Russian classic fully to life. The novel’s iconic hero, Ostap Bender, an unemployed con artist living by his wits, joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to look for a cache of missing jewels hidden in chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities. The search for the chairs takes them from the provinces of Moscow to the wilds of the Transcaucasus mountains. On their quest they encounter a variety of characters, from opportunistic Soviet bureaucrats to aging survivors of the old propertied classes, each one more selfish, venal, and bungling than the last. A brilliant satire of the early years of the Soviet Union, as well as the inspiration for a Mel Brooks film, The Twelve Chairs retains its universal appeal.
| Book format | Paperback |
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| Fiction/nonfiction | Fiction |
| Genre | Literature & Fiction |
| Publication date | October, 2011 |
| Pages | 546 |
| Reading level | General/Trade |
| Subgenre | Literary, World Literature - Russia - 20th Century, Satire, Cultural Heritage |
| Series title | Northwestern World Classics |
| Number in series | 1 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Original languages | English |
| Translator | Anne O. Fisher |
| Translated from | Russian |
| Language | English |
| Awards won | 2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation |
| Character | Ostap Bender |
| Assembled product height | 1.75 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1.38 lb |
| Bisac subject heading | Fiction |
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