Most Popular Books by Mikhail Bulgakov

A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with historical, imaginary, frightful, and wonderful characters. Written during the darkest days of Stalin’s reign, and finally published in 1966 and 1967, The Master and Margarita became a literary phenomenon, signaling artistic and spiritual freedom for Russians everywhere. This newly revised translation, by the award-winning team of Pevear and Volokhonsky, is made from the complete and unabridged Russian text. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) is also the author of ''Black Snow'' and ''The Master And Margarita''.

A collection of irreverent and satirical stories varing in range from straight realism to science fiction.

Reissued to tie-in with a new production of Flight at the Royal National Theatre, this volume contains six plays by Mikhail Bulgakov, a Soviet playwright whose work often brought him into conflict with the Soviet authorities.

The first complete and accurate English translation of Bulgakov''s classic novel, accompanied by a substantial historical introduction "Bulgakov''s novel not only leads us into a majestic, more-than-1,000-year-old metropolis, but also gives us an understanding of how, in a single day, the world can change as radically as if decades had passed."--Marci Shore, The Atlantic "Bulgakov''s novel evokes the suffering of the conflict and the still greater horrors that lay ahead."--Joshua Rubenstein, Wall Street Journal White Guard, Mikhail Bulgakov''s semi-autobiographical first novel, is the story of the Turbin family in Kiev in 1918. Alexei, Elena, and Nikolka Turbin have just lost their mother--their father had died years before--and find themselves plunged into the chaotic civil war that erupted in the Ukraine in the wake of the Russian Revolution. In the context of this family''s personal loss and the social turmoil surrounding them, Bulgakov creates a brilliant picture of the existential crises brought about by the revolution and the loss of social, moral, and political certainties. He confronts the reader with the bewildering cruelty that ripped Russian life apart at the beginning of the last century as well as with the extraordinary ways in which the Turbins preserved their humanity. In this volume Marian Schwartz, a leading translator, offers the first complete and accurate translation of the definitive original text of Bulgakov''s novel. She includes the famous dream sequence, omitted in previous translations, and beautifully solves the stylistic issues raised by Bulgakov''s ornamental prose. Readers with an interest in Russian literature, culture, or history will welcome this superb translation of Bulgakov''s important early work. This edition also contains an informative historical essay by Evgeny Dobrenko.

A religious cabal, infuriated by Moliere''s play ''Tartuffe'', uncovers information that the playwright may have unwittingly married his own daughter, causing Moliere to lose the favour of King Louis XIV.

When Soviet censors approved Mikhail Bulgakov''s ??? ?????, a stage adaptation of Don Quixote, they were unaware that they were sanctioning a subtle but powerful criticism of Stalinist rule. The author, whose novel ?????? ? ????????? would eventually bring him world renown, achieved this sleight of hand through a deft interpretation of Cervantes''s knight. Bulgakov''s Don Quixote fits comfortably into the nineteenth-century Russian tradition of idealistic, troubled intellectuals, but Quixote''s quest becomes an allegory of the artist under the strictures of Stalin''s regime. Bulgakov did not live to see the play performed: it went into production in 1940, only months after his death. The volume''s introduction provides background for Bulgakov''s adaptation and compares Bulgakov with Cervantes and the twentieth-century Russian work with the seventeenth-century Spanish work.

Psalm is a famouse short story of ukraіnian wrighter Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov was a Soviet playwright, novelist, and short story writer best known for his humor and penetrating satire. Because of their realism and humor, Bulgakov’s works enjoyed great popularity, but their trenchant criticism of Soviet mores was increasingly unacceptable to the authorities.

When a stray dog dying on the streets of Moscow is taken in by a wealthy professor, he is subjected to medical experiments in which he receives various transplants of human organs. As he begins to transform into a rowdy, unkempt human by the name of Poligraf Poligrafovich Sharikov, his actions distress the professor and those surrounding him, although he finds himself accepted into the ranks of the Soviet state. A 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. Nowadays this hugely entertaining tale has become very popular in Russia, and has inspired many adaptations across the world.

Affiliation, and the Byzantine Moscow bureaucracy. This stylistically brilliant work was only partially published during Bulgakov''s lifetime due to censorship, but was immediately recognized by the literati as an important work. The other stories collected here range from a sequence about the Civil War to Bulgakov''s early reportage on the rebuilding of Moscow in the early 1920s, stories which now have a strikingly contemporary ring. Bulgakov describes the swindlers who.

In Bulgakov''s ''Diaboliad'', the modest and unassuming office clerk Korotkov is summarily sacked for a trifling error from his job at the Main Central Depot of Match Materials, and tries to seek out his newly assigned superior, responsible for his dismissal. His quest through the labyrinth of Soviet bureaucracy takes on the increasingly surreal dimensions of a nightmare. This early satirical story, reminiscent of Gogol and Dostoevsky, was first published in 1924 and incurred the wrath of pro-Soviet critics. Along with the three other stories in this volume, which also explore the themes of the absurd and bizarre, it provides a fascinating glimpse into the artistic development of the author of The Master and Margarita.

�Beg� - p''esa vydayushchegosya russkogo pisatelya i dramaturga Mihaila Bulgakova.Dejstvie p''esy razvorachivaetsya vo vremya Grazhdanskoj vojny v Rossii, kogda ostatki beloj armii otchayanno soprotivlyayutsya krasnym na Krymskom pereshejke. Zdes'' tesno perepletayutsya sud''by bezzashchitnoj Serafimy Korzuhinoj, broshennoj na proizvol sud''by muzhem, samogo Korzuhina, privat-docenta Golubkova, vlyublyonnogo v Serafimu, belogo generala CHarnoty, komanduyushchego frontom belyh, zhestokogo i neschastnogo Romana Hludova, i mnogih drugih geroev.