The Golden Calf

Reprint of the famous novel Ilya Ilf and Evgenia Petrov.
The book goes out in the author"s editorial board with an appointment of the initial ending - the chapter "Adam said that it is necessary, in which Ostap Bender marries Zos Sinitskaya.
And also - for the first time in full - plans, plot developments and sketches from archival folder "Materials to" Great Combinator "with comments A. I. Ilf and new facts about the work of famous co-authors in the final article" Odessa motives in novels Ilf and Petrov ".
It"s already a lot of golden calf and will probably be written, but, paraphrasing American advertising, I want to say: "A book that is quite ridiculous to and after seventy years to be published in Russia, writes in the preface Alexander Ilf.
The publication continues a series of books dedicated to the work of Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov, prepared and commented by Alexander Ilfit