Heart of a Dog
by Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Used
- Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394174429
- ISBN 13
- 9780394174426
- Seller
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Tacoma, Washington, United States
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About This Item
grove Press, 1968 Book. Good. Mass Market Paperback. Minor wear, some staining and dissolved text on the lower rear wrap. Written in 1925, but not published in Russia until 1987..
Synopsis
Heart of a Dog is a biting satire of the New Soviet man, written in 1925 at the height of the NEP period, when Communism appeared to be weakening in the Soviet Union. It is "one of novelist Mikhail Bulgakov's most beloved stories" featuring a stray dog "named Sharik who takes human form as a slovenly proletarian. " It also features Professor Filip Filippovich Preobrazhensky who implants a human pituitary gland and testicles into Sharik.
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- Bookseller
- Else Fine Booksellers (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001287
- Title
- Heart of a Dog
- Author
- Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0394174429
- ISBN 13
- 9780394174426
- Publisher
- grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1968
- Keywords
- Russian Fiction
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