| Description |
158 pages ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The embroidered towel -- The steel windpipe -- Black as Egypt's night -- Baptism by rotation -- The speckled rash -- The blizzard -- The vanishing eye -- Morphine -- The murderer |
| Summary |
Classic 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 such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light. How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibiliti es of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of Revolution - is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Originally published: Great Britain : Collins & Harvill, 1975 |
| Subject |
Bulgakov, Mikhail, 1891-1940 -- Translations into English.
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Country life -- Russia -- Fiction.
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Physicians -- Russia -- Fiction.
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Russia -- History -- 1801-1917 -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Author |
Gleeny, Michael
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| ISBN |
0099529564 (paperback) |
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9780099529569 (paperback) |
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