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020			_a9781847493873
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041			_aeng
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050			_aPG3476 _bB78 A6
100			_a Bulgakov, Mikhail _d1891-1940 _923131 _eauthor
240			_aShort stories. Selections. _lEnglish
245			_aNotes on the cuff & other stories _c/ Mikhail Bulgakov ; translated by Roger Cockrell
260			_aSurrey, England : Alma Classics, 2014
300			_a ix, 207 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
505			_aIntroduction -- Notes on a cuff and other stories -- Notes on a cuff -- The fire of the khans -- The crimson island -- A week of enlightenmnet -- The unusual adventures of a doctor -- Psalm -- Moonshine lake -- Makar Devushkin's story -- A scurvy character -- The murderer -- The cockroach -- A dissolute man -- Note on the text -- Notes -- Extra material: Mikhai Bulgakov's life ; Mikhail Bulgakov's works ; select bibliography
520			_aThe stories collected here represent a sampling of the prose that first established Bulgakov as a major figure in the literary renaissance of Moscow in the 1920s, long before he became known as an influential playwright and novelist. The centerpiece of this collection is the long story "Notes on the Cuff," a comically autobiographical account of how the tenacious young writer managed to begin his literary career despite famine, typhus, civil war, the wrong political affiliation, and the Byzantine Moscow bureaucracy. This stylistically brilliant work was only partially published during Bulgakov's lifetime due to censorship, but was immediately recognized by the literati as an important work. The other stories collected here range from a sequence about the Civil War to Bulgakov's early reportage on the rebuilding of Moscow in the early 1920s, stories which now have a strikingly contemporary ring. Bulgakov describes the swindlers who arrived along with NEP, a program for the limited return to a market economy, as well as the vast reconstruction as the city is brought back from the destruction of civil war. Bulgakov, who burst on the world literary scene in the 1960s with the publication of his long-suppressed The Master and Margarita, has continued to enjoy tremendous success both in and out of Russia where productions of his plays and adaptations of his prose works have found new audiences.
600		0	_aBulgakov, Mikhail _d1891-1940 _xTranslations into English _923133
650		0	_aSoviet Union _xFiction _923134
655		0	_aShort stories _922375
700			_aCockrell, Roger _923132 _etranslator
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999			_c4009 _d4009
653			_aREADING IN ENGLISH
655			_aRussian literature
655			_aLiterary classics