The Fatal Eggs
$19.42
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
20 October 2026
Summary
Experience a BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mikhail Bulgakov, the Soviet satirist supreme, in this razor-sharp tale of science, folly, and catastrophe.
What begins as a miracle of science soon turns into a nightmare…
After a plague wipes out all of Russia’s chickens, eyes fall on zoologist Periskov and his strange discovery that promises to revive their population. But quickly, the state’s attempt to control nature spirals rapidly out of control, and soon all of Moscow is under siege by…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529981520 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529981522 |
| Author: | Mikhail Bulgakov, Carl Proffer |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 20 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 110g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 131mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Brief Encounters |
About The Author
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev, graduating as a doctor in 1916. He gave up the practice of medicine in 1920 to devote himself to literature.
In 1925, he completed the satirical novella The Heart of a Dog, which remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987. This was one of many works suppressed by censors. By 1930, Bulgakov’s frustration with the political atmosphere and the suppression of his writings led him to write to Stalin, pleading to be allowed to emigrate if he could not pursue his literary career in the USSR. Stalin personally telephoned Bulgakov and offered him a position at the Moscow Arts Theatre instead.
In 1938, a year before contracting a fatal illness, Bulgakov completed his prose masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. He died in 1940. Thanks to the persistence of his widow, the novel made its first, incomplete appearance in 1966-7, and was published in full in 1973.
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