The Fatal Eggs: New Translation

ISBN-13: 9781847493712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 160 str.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Opis

Professor Persikov has discovered a light ray that accelerates the growth of living things, but when he exposes the wrong batch of eggs to the ray he creates mutant giant snakes and crocodiles that terrorize the neighbourhood, and his character is destroyed by the press.

Recenzje

The exuberance of it. has to enliven the reader, and make us laugh. Doris Lessing

O autorze

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) was a Soviet Russian author and playwright best known for The Master and Margarita, Black Snow and Diaboliad. Roger Cockrell is Honorary Fellow in Russian at the University of Exeter, UK. His publciations include a translation of Fadeev's the Rout, also in this series; an edition of Bulgakov's White Guard and (as co-author) The Voice of a Giant: Essays on Seven Russian Prose Classics.