Twelve chairs. Blood calf

“Twelve chairs” is the first novel of Ilf and Petrov, who, perhaps, has become the most funny and witty work in Russian literature. This is a novel, written almost a century ago, still remains in hearing - quotes from the novel are known even to those who have not read the page of the text. The story of how Ostap Bender and his partner Kisoy Vorobyaninov try to find diamonds hidden in one of the twelve chairs of a furniture set, became truly “folk classics.”
“Golden Calf” - the continuation of the legendary novel “Twelve Chairs”, in which By the will of the authors, their beloved hero is a charming and resourceful swindler Ostap Bender, this time dreams of taking five hundred thousand at once “on a silver platter” and leave for Rio de Janeiro ... Which of the “400 relatively honest ways to withdraw money Will choose a great combinator to crank this complex operation?
Both novels are more than once filmed and remain relevant for many generations of readers