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The white guard
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- Book Synopsis
- The Turbins gather in warmth and lamplight. Beyond their apartment, Kyiv is falling into civil war. Discover Mikhail Bulgakov's classic literary love letter to the city of Kyiv. Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kyiv during the winter of 1918-1919, as the German-backed Hetmanate collapses and rival forces fight for control of the city. At the centre of the novel are the Turbins: Alexei, Elena and Nikolka, siblings trying to preserve their home, loyalty and dignity as the world they know breaks apart. Around them, officers, civilians and political opportunists move through panic, rumour, betrayal and sudden violence. Bulgakov's first novel is a classic of twentieth-century Russian literature: a literary historical novel about family, civil war, political collapse and the fragility of civilisation. Domestic realism, satire and war chronicle combine in a moving portrait of people trying to remain human amid revolution. 'The tumultuous atmosphere of the Ukrainian revolution and civil war is brilliantly evoked' Daily Telegraph
- About The Author
- Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916, but 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 In 1925 he completed the satirical novella The Heart of a Dog, which remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987.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 the many defeats he was to suffer at the hands of his censors. By 1930 Bulgakov had become so frustrated by the political atmosphere and the suppression of his works that he wrote to Stalin begging to be allowed to emigrate if he was not to be given the opportunity to make his living as a writer in the USSR. Stalin telephoned him personally and offered to arrange a job for him at the Moscow Arts Theatre instead. In 1938, a year before contracting a fatal illness, he completed his prose masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. He died in 1940. In 1966-7, thanks to the persistance of his widow, the novel made a first, incomplete, appearance in Moskva, and in 1973 appeared in full.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780099490661
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics, (06 July 2006)
- Number of Pages
- 301
- Weight
- 222 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 199 x 131 x 20 mm
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