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- I.Ilf, E.Petrov "Twelve
Chairs"
- 395 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.92 x 7.92 x 5.00
- language: English
- The best humor in Russian novels (and, probably, in the world), it's a greatest Russian
big satirical work of the XX century. Ilf & Petrov had invented Ostap Bender, a very
unusual (for Soviet Russia especially) hero, who is very active and witty and easily
discovers many of lacks of Soviet system and human lacks generally. These book and
"The Golden Calf" were forbidden in the USSR for many years. "Twelve
Chairs" & "The Golden Calf" are the most popular novels in Russia. Also
these books were favorite for Mikhail Tal, the 8th World Chess Champion, who was a
philologist on his education. One of the chapters is fully devoted to chess, Ilf &
Petrov were qualified chess amateurs. The novel was written in 1927.
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- I.Ilf, E.Petrov "Selected Stories"
- 96 pages, dimensions (in inches): 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.3
- language: English
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- I.Ilf, E.Petrov "Twelve Chairs
& The Golden Calf"
- 390 pages
- language: English
- 2 great novels about the adventures of Ostap Bender.
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- I.Ilf, E.Petrov "The Golden Calf"
- 390 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.84 x 7.99 x 5.39
- language: Russian language
- About the adventures of Ostap Bender in Soviet Russia in
1930. Bender wants to get 1000000 rubles and then leave Russia...
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- Other
Books of Ilf & Petrov
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- A. Averchenko "Sobranie sochineny
v 6 tomakh (rasskazy)" ("The Collected Works in Six Volumes")
- publisher: "Respublika" (1999)
- language: Russian
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- A. Averchenko "Rokovoi vyigrysh
(rasskazy)" ("Fatal Prize: stories")
- publisher: "Dom" (1994)
- 379 pages
- language: Russian
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- An interesting fact - Averchenko was a strong chess amateur. And like Nabokov he liked
to create chess problems.
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- Other
Books of Arkady Averchenko
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- V.Nabokov "The
Luzhin Defense"
- 272 pages, dimensions (in inches): 0.59 x 8.06 x 5.36
- It's the only serious novel about chess grandmaster, and Vladimir Nabokov have some
competence as problemist. Which famous player of the past was the prototype of Nabokov's
character of Luzhin? They say, that Akiba Rubinstein was, but Nabokov strongly denied any
prototypes.
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- V.Nabokov "Poems
and Problems"
- 218 pages
- Nabokov was a normal chess problemist (some of his compositions were published in chess
magazines). He was creating chess problems during all his life.
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- Other
Books of Nabokov
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