The Little Golden Calf (Russian: Золотой телёнок, Zolotoy telyonok) is a famous satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petrov, released in 1931. Its 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.
The novel was made into a 1968 black-and-white film The Little Golden Calf and 2006 eight-part TV series The Little Golden Calf.
Read more about The Little Golden Calf: Plot Summary, Main Characters, Two Endings, Cultural Influence of The Book
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“I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)