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Everyman's library volume 66
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In an updated version of the Faust story, the devil and his minions pay 1920's Moscow a visit and wreak havoc on the artistic community. Bulgakov's satire was banned in Russia by Stalin, and only published in England 27 years after the author's death.
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A dark, fantastical satire of Communist utopianism by the author of The Master and Margarita.
Lauded Russian author and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov's A Dog's Heart (sometimes translated as The Heart of a Dog) is a zany, violent, and whimsical satire of the failures inherent in the dream of a Communist utopia, following dog-turned-human Sharik as he tries and fails utterly to live a life of goodness and virtue-but goodness and virtue as defined by...
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Regarded as the foremost Russian translators in today's literary field, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhovsky -- together with acclaimed playwright Richard Nelson -- have created fresh interpretations of two seminal works from the acclaimed Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. The original works were charged with cultural subtext and controversial intrigue, revealed in a new light with this exceptional new volume.
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The Outer Darkness” - is a fascinating short story by the famous Russian writer, playwright, and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). Once in the evening the boy from the neighboring village arrives to the village doctor. The doctor examines him and diagnosticates malaria and sends him to the hospital. At night the doctor is woken up by the scared nurse, who asks to run to the patient very urgently.
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The Redstone Moscow” - is a splendid essay by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). This is an ordinary Moscow landscape. The trams are buzzing, the children are having fun, the newspaper sellers are shouting along the whole street, trying to draw the passers-by's attention and the cars are rushing along the road.
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From the author of The Master and Margarita, these semiautobiographical stories chronicle the darkly comic adventures of a physician in rural 1917 Russia.
Fresh from medical school in the winter of 1917, the young Dr. Bomgard assumes the role of the only doctor in a provincial Russian hospital. Dealing with a cases ranging from the horrific to the hilarious to the surreal, Bomgard recounts his solitary time practicing medicine among the superstitious,...
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I first read Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita on a balcony of the Hotel Metropole in Saigon on three summer evenings in 1971. The tropical air was heavy and full of the smells of cordite and motorcycle exhaust and rotting fish and wood-fire stoves, and the horizon flared ambiguously, perhaps from heat lightning, perhaps from bombs. Later each night, as was my custom, I would wander out into the steamy back alleys of the city, where no one...
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Moscow of the 20-s” - is a fascinating short story by the famous Russian writer, playwright and theatrical personage Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891 - 1940). The narrator in his time has walked along Moscow far and wide and he knows every street and every house. He shares his memories about the city in the 20-s of the XX century, about its houses with the lifts which did not work, about the communal flats with the thin walls and about the painful...
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Marietta Chudakova is an expert on Soviet literature and on the works of Mikhail Bulgakov in particular. Her biography of Bulgakov was first published in 1988 and remains the most authoritative and comprehensive study of the writer's life ever produced. It has received acclaim for the journalistic style in which it is written: the author draws on unpublished manuscripts and early drafts of Bulgakov's novels to bring the writer to life. She also explores...
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A Study Guide for Mikhail Bulgakov's "Master and Margarita," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Ce guide de lecture pratique offre un résumé et une analyse complète du Maître et Marguerite de Mikhaïl Boulgakov. Il explore en profondeur l'intrigue, les personnages et les principaux thèmes du roman, notamment l'interaction entre le bien et le mal, les travers de l'humanité et l'importance de la liberté spirituelle. Le style clair et concis facilite la compréhension, offrant ainsi l'occasion idéale d'améliorer vos connaissances littéraires...
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Unlock the more straightforward side of The Master and Margarita with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!
This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, which is widely considered to the author's masterpiece and one of the finest novels of the 20th century. Through three interwoven narrative strands, namely Pontius Pilate's persecution of the man who would later be known as Jesus Christ,...
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