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A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
Category: Classics
When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress ...Show more
Black Snow by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
Category: Classics
After being saved from a suicide attempt by a literary editor, the journalist and failed novelist Sergei Maxudov has a book suddenly accepted for stage adaptation at a prestigious venue and finds himself propelled into Moscow's theatrical world. In a cut-throat environment tainted by Soviet politics, ce ...Show more
Diaries and Selected Letters by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
Category: Biography
The career of Mikhail Bulgakov, the author of Master and Margarita - now regarded as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century literature - was characterized by a constant and largely unsuccessful struggle against state censorship. This suppression did not only apply to his art: in 1926 his personal ...Show more
Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
Category: Classics
Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's poultry stocks, Persikov's discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, t ...Show more
Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
Category: Classics
Written between 1920 and 1921 while Bugakov was working in a hospital in the remote Caucasian outpost of Vladikavkaz, Notes on a Cuff is a series of journalistic sketches which show the young doctor trying to embark on a literary career among the chaos of war, disease, politics and bureaucracy.
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov; Richard Pevear (Introduction by, Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics Ser.
'Manuscripts don't burn'In Soviet Moscow, God is dead, but the devil - to say nothing of his retinue of demons, from a loudmouthed, gun-toting tomcat, to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev - is very much alive. As death and destruction spread through the city like wildfire, condemning Moscow's cultural el ...Show more
The White Guard by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov
Category: Fiction
Set in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev during the chaotic winter of 1918-19, The White Guard, Bulgakov's first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. As in Tolstoy's War and Peace, the narrative centres on the stark contrast ...Show more
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