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A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: Classic
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: Fiction | 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: Fiction
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: Classic 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.
A Young Doctor's Notebook: New Translation: Newly Translated and Annotated by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Ser.
Using a sharply realistic and humorous style, Bulgakov reveals his doubts about his own competence and the immense burden of responsibility, as he deals with a superstitious and poorly educated people struggling to enter the modern age. This acclaimed collection contains some of Bulgakov's most personal ...Show more
BLACK SNOW by BULGAKOV MIKHAIL
Category: Classic Fiction | 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: Fiction
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: Classic Fiction
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
Diaboliad and Other Stories by Mikhail Bulgakov
Category: Fiction
After a long period of suppression, Milhail Bulgakov was discovered in the West in 1967 with the publication of his masterpiece, "The Master and Margarita. " "Diaboliad and Other Stories" is the only complete translation of his first collection of short stories, plus six of his best feuilletons from the ...Show more