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A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: Classics
Shows how the author's alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in rural Russia on the eve of Revolution (1916-17).
A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: Poetry & Plays | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.
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
A Dog's Heart by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A surreal tale of a Moscow doctor who befriends a stray dog and performs on it a human transplant - with disastrous consequences.
BLACK SNOW by BULGAKOV MIKHAIL
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legendary Independent Theatre and Maxudov plunges into a vortex of inflated egos. With each rehearsal more sparks fly and t ...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
Diaboliad by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: Classics
In Bulgakov's "Diaboliad", the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the First Central Depot for the Materials for Matches, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior Kalsoner, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the laby ...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 BULGAKOV MIKHAIL
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But ...Show more
The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: Classics
As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the brilliant and eccentric zoologist Persikov discovers an amazing ray that drastically increases the size and reproductive rate of living organisms. At the same time, a mysterious plague wipes out al ...Show more