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  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241746288
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $14.99
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A Dog's Heart





90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

What would happen if a doctor implanted the pituitary gland and testicles of a man into the body of a stray dog? In Mikhail Bulgakov’s topsy-turvy world, the dog starts to walk on two legs, drink, smoke, thieve, chase women and recite every swear word in Russian. The perfect candidate for a government official, in other words. This rude, riotous send-up of the Soviet Union, banned immediately on publication, is satire red in tooth and claw.

  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241746288
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $14.99
Categories:

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About the author

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian, later Soviet 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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