The Golden Calf
The wild success that befell Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov after the publication of "The Twelve Chairs" (1928) prompted the co-authors to "resurrect" their hero, the unbowed and charming swindler Ostap Bender, and to begin creating the novel "The Golden Calf" (1931). This time the "great schemer" devises an operation to extort money from the underground millionaire Koreiko. Sparkling humor, unexpected plot twists, aphoristic style, and other merits of the duology leave no one indifferent. The novels about Ostap Bender are part of the golden fund of Russian literature.