The Little Golden Calf

Author : Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf
Publisher : New York : F. Ungar
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Golden Calf written by Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf and published by New York : F. Ungar. This book was released on 1961 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The satirical novel's main character, Ostap Bender, also appeared in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. The title alludes to the "golden calf" of the Bible; another possible rendering of it in English, less literal but better tuned to the air of the novel, would be "The Gilded Calf". It continues the theme of the denunciation of money-grubbing, philistine stupidity, and bureaucracy, which began in “The Twelve Chairs”.

Author : Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf
Publisher : Russian Information Service
ISBN 13 : 1880100614
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Golden Calf written by Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf and published by Russian Information Service. This book was released on 2009 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brand new translation of the famous satirical sequel to The Twelve Chairs resurrects the con man Ostap Bender, the smooth operator, and follows him and his three hapless co-conspirators on a hilarious romp through the Soviet Russia and Central Asia of 1930. Bender says he has "very serious differences of opinion with Soviet power. It wants to build socialism, and I don't." The smooth operator wants to emigrate to Rio de Janeiro, so he and his crew set off in pursuit of an underground millionaire, who, Bender is certain, will bring me his money himself, on a little saucer with a sky-blue rim. One of the greatest works of Russian satire of the 20th century (the 1932 American translation billed it as "The book that's too funny to be published in Russia!"), this lively new translation (the first since 1961) by Anne O. Fisher is copiously annotated (nearly 300 footnotes), and includes an introduction by Alexandra Ilf, the daughter of one of the book s two co-authors. So many quotations from The Little Golden Calf have entered everyday Russian speech that it stands alongside the works of Griboyedov, Pushkin, and Gogol for its profound effect on Russian language and culture. The tale overflows with legendary literary episodes, offering a portrait of Russian life that is as funny and true today as it was when the novel was first published (this edition is the first unabridged, uncensored English translation, and is 100% true to the original serial publication). For decades, foreigners trying to understand Russia have been advised to read the adventures of Ostap. This new translation makes them more enjoyable than ever.

Author : Il'ya Il'f
Publisher : Jiahu Books
ISBN 13 : 9781784350468
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Golden Calf written by Il'ya Il'f and published by Jiahu Books. This book was released on 2014-02-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Golden Calf is a famous satirical novel by Soviet authors Il'f and Petrov, released in 1931. Its main character Ostap Bender, also appeared in a previous novel by the authors called The Twelve Chairs. Ostap Bender is still alive (but sports an unexplained scar across his neck), after somehow surviving the assassination in the previous book. This time he hears a story about an "underground millionaire" named Alexandr Koreiko. Bender tracks him down and uses his wiles to try to con him out of his money. The book contributed a number of catchphrases and colourful terms into the Russian language, such as "Horns and Hoofs company" and "Children of Lieutenant Schmidt."

Author : Илья Ильф
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568986005
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip written by Илья Ильф and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935, well into the era of Soviet communism, Russian satirical writers Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov came to the U.S as special correspondents for the Russian newspaper Pravda. They drove cross-country and back on a ten-week trip, recording images of American life through humerous texts and the lens of a Leica camera. When they returned home, they published their work in Ogonek, the Soviet equivalent of Time magazine, and later in the book Odnoetazhnaia Amerika (Single-Storied America). This wonderful lost workfilled with wry observations, biting opinions, and telling photographsis now collected in Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip, the first English translation. From Ilf and Petrov's American Road Trip: "The word 'America' has well-developed grandiose associations for a Soviet person, for whom it refers to a country of skyscrapers, where day and night one hears the unceasing thunder of surface and underground trains, the hellish roar of automobile horns, and the continuous despairing screams of stockbrokers rushing through the skyscrapers waving their ever-falling shares. We want to change that image." A Cabinet Book published by Princeton Architectural Press

Author : Илья Ильф
Publisher : Litres
ISBN 13 : 5043398035
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Одноэтажная Америка / Little Golden America written by Илья Ильф and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-04-07 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: «Одноэтажная Америка» – произведение в жанре путевого очерка, написанное Ильей Ильфом и Евгением Петровым. Это добрая и умная книга, рассказывающая о жизни и быте американцев, о встречах авторов с самыми разными людьми, полная интересных историй и наблюдений. Читателям предлагается неадаптированный перевод произведения на английский язык, выполненный Чарльзом Маламутом. Пособие рассчитано на широкий круг читателей, изучающих английский язык и интересующихся творчеством И. Ильфа и Е. Петрова.В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет книги.

Author : George H. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Side-saddle on the Golden Calf written by George H. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Calf written by Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Il'ia Arnol'dovich Il'f
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Golden Calf written by Il'ia Arnol'dovich Il'f and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Johann Friedrich Helvetius
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires written by Johann Friedrich Helvetius and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Golden Calf, Which the World Adores, and Desires" by Johann Friedrich Helvetius. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf
Publisher : Open Letter Books
ISBN 13 : 1934824070
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Calf written by Ilʹi︠a︡ Ilʹf and published by Open Letter Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The funniest novel of the Soviet era, this translation is based on the uncensored original thus restoring missing passages. Set during the New Economic Policy, con man Ostap Bender and his merry band of mischief makers set of on a raucously funny jaunt across the 'wild west' of the early Soviet Union. Their mark is Alexander Koreiko, another shady figure who exploited the corruption and chaos of the NEP to become an underground millionaire. Once Bender hears of Koreiko, the chase is on.