A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov

He spent his free time writing short stories, which he eventually published in the collection A Country Doctor’s Notebook. After the war, he became a surgeon and then began working as a country doctor in rural Smolensk province. He went on to study medicine at Kiev University, then work at the Kiev Military Hospital and serve as a Red Cross physician during World War I. His father died in his youth, but his diligent mother, a teacher, oversaw his education and cultivated his early interest in literature. 26.Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev, Ukraine-then part of the Russian Empire-to an elite Russian family of Orthodox clergymen and scholars.

How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and often appalling responsibilities of a lone doctor in a vast country practice - on the eve of Revolution - is described in Bulgakov's delightful blend of candid realism and imaginative exuberance. With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia which, in 1916-17, was still largely unaffected by such novelties as the motor car, the telephone or electric light.

9780099529569 A Country Doctor's Notebook 26.5000 NZD InStock /shop/books/fiction /shop/books/fiction/classics /shop/books Brilliant stories which show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material which fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction Brilliant stories which show the growth of a novelist's mind, and the raw material which fed the wild surrealism of Bulgakov's later fiction How his alter-ego copes (or fails to cope) with the new and ofte.

A Country Doctor's Notebook by Mikhail Bulgakov