Little Golden America
By: by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov
Contributors: Petrov, Evgeniĭ, 1903-1942, author
Series: Routledge revivals
Publisher: Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Boca Raton, FL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781315124322
Copyright date: 1944
Subjects: History; Statistics; Histoire; History (discipline); HISTORY; General
Description: Odnoetazhnya Amerika (One-Storied America) First published in the U.S.S.R. 1936. Little Golden America. First published in England in 1944. Translated from the Russian by Charles Malamuth This is one of the most popular books ever published in the Soviet Union. It remains popular in Russia today. We Americans cannot figure out what makes it so popular. It is a good book, interesting and well written, but does not contain anything so outstanding as to make it the most popular book ever written. Yet almost every Russian seems to have read or to be familiar with "Little Golden Americaâ€?. It describes the adventures of the two authors, Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov, who arrived in New York City on the passenger ship Normandie. After one month in New York, they bought a car and started traveling around the United States. They went to Chicago and San Francisco and then swept back through the Southern States. When they arrived back in New York to return to Europe, they said that they had traveled ten thousand miles.
Table of contents: title: Part I From a Twenty-Seventh-Story Window  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 1 The Normandie  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 2 The First Evening in New York  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 3 What Can Be Seen From a Hotel Window  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 4 Appetite Departs While Eating  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 5 We Seek an Angel Without Wings  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 6 Papa and Mamma  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 7 The Electric Chair  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 8 A New York Arena  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 9 We Purchase an Automobile and Depart  -- Ilya Ilf; title: part II Through the Eastern States  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 10 On the Automobile Highway  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 11 The Small Town  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 12 A Big Little Town  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 13 Mr. Ripley's Electric House  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 14 America Cannot Be Caught Napping  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 15 Dearborn  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 16 Henry Ford  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 17 That Horrible Town, Chicago  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 18 The Best Musicians in the World  -- Ilya Ilf; title: part III Toward the Pacific Ocean  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 19 In Mark Twain's Country  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 20 A Marine  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 21 Rogers and His Wife  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 22 Santa Fe  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 23 Meeting the Indians  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 24 A Day of Mishaps  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 25 The Desert  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 26 Grand Canyon  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 27 The Man in the Red Shirt  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 28 A Young Baptist  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 29 On the Crest of the Dam  -- Ilya Ilf; title: part IV The Golden State  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 30 Mrs. Adams Sets a Record  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 31 San Francisco  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 32 American Football  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 33 Russian Hill  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 34 Captain X  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 35 Four Standard Types  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 36 The God of Potboilers  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 37 Hollywood Serfs  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 38 Pray, Weigh Yourself, and Pay  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 39 God's Country  -- Ilya Ilf; title: part V Back to the Atlantic  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 40 On the Old Spanish Trail  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 41 A Day in Mexico  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 42 New Year's Eve in San Antonio  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 43 We Enter the Southern States  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 44 Negroes  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 45 American Democracy  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 46 They and We  -- Ilya Ilf; title: chapter 47 Farewell, America! -- Ilya Ilf.