Heart of a Dog

Name: Heart of a Dog
Author: Mihail Bulgakov

by Mihail Bulgakov

Satirical novella about a surgeon who transplants human pituitary glands into a dog

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Mihail Bulgakov

Soviet-Russian author whose darkly satirical fiction was banned during his lifetime. The Master and Margarita remains one of the masterpieces of 20th-century world fiction.

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