Book two, part three
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The Golden Calf (1931) is a brilliant satirical picaresque adventure, a sequel to the legendary 12 Chairs, where the great schemer Ostap Bender returns in full glory – charming, cynical, irredeemably cunning and always one step ahead of everyone else.
The work depicts the process of creating a literary hero and mocks bureaucracy, superficiality, and the artificial creation of "ideal" stories according to predetermined rules.
The fifth book in a row of works by this great classic of Russian humor contains mainly his literary work from 1887. In this volume, the reader will find a number of already celebrated and well-known, as well as a large number of previously unpublished no
A popular science book for young people about the history of writing, books, and printing — from prehistoric drawings to the modern printing press. A lively, accessible style by a Soviet author with illustrations by N. Lapshin.
The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall
The fourth volume of Chekhov's works contains novellas and humoresques, which were mostly written in 1886. Still writing for a fee in daily newspapers, Chekhov often had to subordinate his art to comprehensibility and cheap humor due to the taste of the r