The Heart Of A Dog
by Mikhail Bulgakov
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0099529947
- ISBN 13
- 9780099529941
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Paperback / softback. New. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man.
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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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- A9780099529941
- Title
- The Heart Of A Dog
- Author
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Format/Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 10
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0099529947
- ISBN 13
- 9780099529941
- Publisher
- Vintage Classic
- This edition first published
- 2009
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