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The White Guard

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The White Guard
Authors and Contributors      Adapted by Andrew Upton
By (author) Mikhail Bulgakov
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:112
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 126
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
ISBN/Barcode 9780571268597
ClassificationsDewey:822.92
Audience
General
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher Faber & Faber
Imprint Faber & Faber
Publication Date 18 March 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.

Author Biography

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.