Dog's Heart

«Dog's Heart», the brilliant novella by Mikhail Bulgakov, written back in 1925, which almost cost the author his freedom and was published only abroad until 1987, circulating in samizdat, needs no introduction. Almost down to the last letter, the story of the sweet dog Sharik, transformed, thanks to the experiment of Professor Preobrazhensky, into the typical «red boor» Poligraf Sharikov, has truly cult status among Russian-speaking readers for several generations. Also included in the collection is «The Life of Monsieur de Molière», – a sad and brilliantly witty fictionalized biography of the great French playwright.