Ilya Ilf, Eugene Petrov

Revival

Little Golden America (1944)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

It describes the adventures of the two authors, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9781138567511
• ISBN-10: 1138567515
• Artikelnr.: 56876054

Autorenporträt

Ilya Ilf, Eugene Petrov

Inhaltsangabe

PART I: FROM A TWENTY-SEVENTH-STORY WINDOW 1. The Normandie 2. The First
Evening in New York 3. What Can be Seen from a Hotel Window 4. Appetite
Departs While Eating 5. We Seek an Angel Without Wings 6. Papa and Mamma 7.
The Electric Chair 8. A New York Arena 9. We Purchase an Automobile and
Depart PART II: THROUGH THE EASTERN STATES 10. On the Automobile Highway
11. The Small Town 12. A Big Little Town 13. Mr. Ripley's Electric House
14. America Cannot be Caught Napping 15. Dearborn 16. Henry Ford 17. That
Horrible Town, Chicago 18. The Best Musicians in the World PART III: TOWARD
THE PACIFIC OCEAN 19. In Mark Twain's Country 20. A Marine 21. Rogers and
his Wife 22. Santa Fe 23. Meeting the Indians 24. A Day of Mishaps 25. The
Desert 26. Grand Canyon 27. The Man in the Red Shirt 28. A Young Baptist
29. On the Crest of the Dam PART IV: THE GOLDEN STATE 30. Mrs. Adams Sets a
Record 31. San Francisco 32. American Football 33. Russian Hill 34. Captain
X 35. Four Standard Types 36. The God of Potboilers 37. Hollywood Serfs 38.
Pray, Weigh Yourself, and Pay 39. God's Country PART V: BACK TO THE
ATLANTIC 40. On the Old Spanish Trail 41. A Day in Mexico 42. New Year's
Eve in San Antonio 43. We Enter the Southern States 44. Negroes 45.
American Democracy 46. They and We 47. Farewell, America!