A Dog's Heart. The Master and Margarita. The White Guard. Morphine (set of 4 books)

We present to your attention a set of 4 books:
A Dog's Heart. Stories:
The fantastic satirical prose of the 1920s - "Fatal Eggs", "The Devil's Work", "A Dog's Heart" - M. Bulgakov is infused with the spirit of its time with... its notions of the possibility of rejuvenation and even victory over death. Interestingly, it is only in "A Dog's Heart" that the scientist and intellectual, a bearer of practical wisdom, defeats his creation without allowing himself to be destroyed.
The Master and Margarita:
The novel "The Master and Margarita" underwent numerous bans on publication and persecution, no less than the fate of the novel about Pontius Pilate by the Master himself. First published in 1966 with cuts in a magazine version, the full text of the novel was published only in the 1980s. Before the official publication, it circulated in hand-copy reprints and immediately acquired incredible popularity and love from readers. A spectacular satire on the life and morals of Moscow in the 1930s, simultaneously a piercing love story of the Master and Margarita and the eternal biblical theme of the struggle between good and evil, a novel about Pontius Pilate within the novel – these are by no means all the layers of this genius work by Mikhail Bulgakov.
The White Guard:
"The White Guard" is an autobiographical novel and at the same time a gripping narrative about the fate of the intelligentsia in Russia after the revolution of 1918, a novel about social catastrophe, about the violence of one strata over all others, about the chaotic retreat of Petliura's troops under the onslaught of the Reds. About the disappearance of an entire way of life that will never return.
"…These were legendary times, those times when in the gardens of the most beautiful city of our homeland lived a carefree young generation. It was then that in the hearts of this generation was born the confidence that all life would pass in white color, quietly, peacefully: dawns, sunsets, the Dnieper, Khreshchatyk, sunny streets in summer, and in winter – not cold, not harsh – large, gentle snow…
…And it turned out completely the opposite.
Legendary times came to an abrupt halt, and suddenly and ominously history began."
Morphine. Stories:
M. Bulgakov began his literary path in the genre of notes - notes of a doctor. The relationship between the doctor and the people will become the main theme of this literary period.
Bulgakov's heroes experience the revolution as a disease, and the revolution itself appears as a disease. And because of this, the personal events of the heroes' lives intertwine with the tragic reality, turning into a single stream of life.