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  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241746288
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 144
  • RRP: $17.99
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A Dog's Heart

  • Mikhail Bulgakov



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: $17.99
Categories:

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Love
Annals
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