OBSESSIVE READER

4. Heart of a Dog  by Mikhail Bulgakov

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Mikhail Bulgakov  15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891 – 10 March 1940) was a Russian writer, medical doctor and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.

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Novels and short story collections

• The White Guard (1926)

• Great Soviet Short Stories (1962)

• The Master and Margarita (1967)

• A Dead Man's Memoir: A Theatrical Novel (1967) (aka Black Snow)

• Heart of a Dog (1968)

• A Country Doctor's Notebook (1975)

• Diaboliad and Other Stories (1990)

• The Terrible News: Russian Stories from the Years Following the Revolution (1990)

• Notes on the Cuff & Other Stories(1991)

• The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire, 1918–1963 (1993)

Theatre[edit]

• The Cabal of Hypocrites/Molière (1936)

• The Early Plays of Mikhail Bulgakov (1990

• Peace Plays: Two, 1990

• Zoyka's Apartment: A Tragic Farce in Three Acts (1991)

• Six Plays (1991)

Biography[edit]

• Life of M. de Molière, 1962

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First Sentence: Whoo-oo-oo-oo--hooh--hoo-oo! Oh, look at me, I am perishing in this gateway.

 

Last Sentence: "Toward the sacred banks of the Nile. . . "

 

Cellular Sentence: Out of the forty thousand or so Moscow dogs, only a total idiot won't know how to read the word "sausage."