Mikhail Bulgakov

A rich and poetic play set during the Russian Civil War, by the author of The Master and Margarita. Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical play creates a grotesque, tragicomic world in which men and women are entirely at the mercy of chance. Flight is played out in eight 'dreams' that take us from the frozen landscape of the Crimea on a journey through the twilight of an epoch heading for extinction. Written in 1927, Flight was not staged until 1957, seventeen years after Bulgakov's death. This free adaptation by Ron Hutchinson was first staged at the National Theatre, London, in February 1998.

From the author of MASTER AND MARGARITA, BLACK SNOW and DIABOLIAD, a novel which features a Moscow professor who befriends a stray dog and transplants into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man, unleashing a human dog which turns the professor's life into a nightmare beyond endurance.

Set in Moscow of the 1920's, this satirical novel recounts the dealings a writer and his mistress have with Satan

"My favorite novel -it's just the greatest explosion of imagination, craziness, satire, humor, and heart." Daniel Radcliffe. The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth, and a startling re-creation of the story of Pontius Pilate, constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove The Master and Margarita, the unofficial masterpiece of twentieth-century Soviet fiction. Long suppressed in its native land, this account of strange doings in Moscow in the 1930s provides us with the essence of the sceptical, trenchant, unadulterated voice of dissent

Reissued to tie in with a new production of Flight adapted by Ron Hutchinson and performed at the Olivier, Royal National Theatre Mikhail Bulgakov was one of the Soviet Union's finest playwrights, whose work was often at odds with the Soviet State. This volume brings together his major dramatic achievements, including The White Guard, Madame Zoyka, Flight, Moliere, Adam and Eve and The Last Days. Bulgakov is a much-studied author by schools, colleges and universities.