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The Heart of a Dog
- Author
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrator
- Ben Allen
- Publisher
- SNR Audio
- Publish Date
- 27 February 2025
- Run Time
- 4 hours 27 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
A well-to-do professor working in Moscow strikes up an unlikely friendship with a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man into the dog.
With a wild, but alarmingly human animal on the loose, the professor's previously respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond his imagination. A suberp satirical novel, it is also a sharp and pointed criticism of Soviet society, especially the new rich that arose after the Bolshevik revolution.
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Details
- Author
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Narrator
- Ben Allen
- Duration
- 4 hours 27 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 February 2025
- ISBN
- 9781805361114
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- SNR Audio
- Genre
- Classic fiction: general and literary, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
A well-to-do professor working in Moscow strikes up an unlikely friendship with a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man into the dog. With a wild, but alarmingly human animal on the loose, the professor's previously respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond his imagination. A suberp satirical novel, it is also a sharp and pointed criticism of Soviet society, especially the new rich that arose after the Bolshevik revolution.
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