Morphine. Heart of a Dog. Stories and Tales

The collection includes early and satirical works by Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940): "Notes of a Young Doctor", "Morphine", "Devil's Sadism", "Fateful Eggs", "Heart of a Dog", "Notes on Cuffs", selected stories, the novel "The Life of Mr. de Molière", and journalistic pieces important for understanding the author's position and his complicated literary fate in Soviet Russia, - the article "Future Prospects" and "Letter to the Government of the USSR" from 1930. The book contains an introductory article about the writer's life by the well-known Bulgakov scholar Marietta Chudakova and her comments on the included works.