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The White Guard

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099490661

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £8.99

The White Guard

Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, The White Guard takes place in Kiev, 1918, a time of turmoil and suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks, Socialists and Germans fight for control of the city. It tells the story of the Turbins, a once-wealthy Russian family, as they are forced to come to terms with revolution and a new regime.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099490661

  • Length: 304  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 19mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 213g

  • RRP: £8.99

Reviews

  • A powerful reverie...the city is so vivid to the eye that it is the real hero of the book.

    New Statesman

  • One of those few emancipated Soviet writers who firmly believe-and still believe-that to create is to choose

    Saturday Review

  • Worth reading in any language

    Library Journal

  • The White Guard captures the tumult, madness and confusion of revolution

    Independent

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About the Author

Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in May 1891. His sympathetic portrayal of White characters in his stories, in the plays The Days of the Turbins (The White Guard), which enjoyed great success at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1926, and Flight (1927), and his satirical treatment of the officials of the New Economic Plan, led to growing criticism, which became violent after the play The Purple Island. He also wrote a brilliant biography of his literary hero, Jean-Baptiste Molière, but The Master and Margarita is generally considered his masterpiece. Fame, at home and abroad, was not to come until a quarter of a century after his death at Moscow in 1940.

Mikhail Bulgakov

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