The Mikhail Bulgakov Collection Multiple-component retail product

The Complete Bulgakov Fiction Collection includes the following eight titles: The White Guard, brand-new translation by Roger Cockrell - 9781847496201Bulgakov’s first full-length novel, tells the story of a Russian-speaking family trapped in circumstances that threaten to destroy them. A Dog’s Heart, brand-new translation by Antonina W.

Bouis – 9781847495686A parodic reworking of the Frankenstein myth and a vicious satire of the Communist revolution and the concept of the New Soviet man, A Dog’s Heart was banned by the censors in 1925 and circulated only in samizdat form.

Diaboliad and Other Stories, brand-new translation by Hugh Aplin – 9781847494726Diaboliad is here presented with three more stories, which also explore the themes of the absurd and bizarre.

Contains ‘Diaboliad’, ‘No.13 – The Elpit Workers’ Commune Building’, ‘A Chinese Tale’, ‘The Adventures of Chichikov’. Notes on a Cuff and Other Stories, brand-new translation by Roger Cockrell – 9781847493873Notes on a Cuff is presented here in a new translation, along with a collection of other short pieces by Bulgakov, many of them – such as ‘The Cockroach’ and ‘A Dissolute Man’ – published for the first time in the English language. The Fatal Eggs, brand-new translation by Roger Cockrell – 9781847493712Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin’s rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G.

Wells and a biting, brilliant satire on the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge. Black Snow, brand-new translation by Roger Cockrell - 9781847493538Unpublished in Bulgakov’s own lifetime, Black Snow is peppered with darkly comic set pieces and draws on its author’s own bitter experience as a playwright with the Moscow Arts Theatre, showcasing his inimitable gift for shrewd observation and razor-sharp satire. The Master and Margarita, new revised edition translated by Hugh Aplin - 9781847497826Both a satirical romp and a daring analysis of the nature of good and evil, innocence and guilt, The Master and Margarita is the crowning achievement of one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century. A Young Doctor’s Notebook, brand-new translation by Hugh Aplin - 9781847492869In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author’s own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor’s turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo.