O mestre e Margarida e um romance revolucionario, onde Bulgakov narra a fantastica chegada do diabo em plena Moscou comunista dos anos 1930. E satanas nao esta sozinho; em sua comitiva, ha uma feiticeira nua, de "ardentes olhos fosforescentes", um homem de roupas apertadas e monoculo rachado, um gato preto de …
A world-famous Moscow professor -- rich, successful, and violently envied by his neighbors -- befriends a stray dog and resolves to achieve a daring scientific "first" by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary grand of a dead man. But the results are wholly unexpected: a distinctly and worryingly human …
The White Guard is a novel by 20th-century Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov, famed for his critically acclaimed later work The Master and Margarita.
Brilliant stories that show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material that fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction.With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr. Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by …