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Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN: 9781846882685
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Alma Books Ltd
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Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin's rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire of the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge.
Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in living organisms. In the wake of a plague that has decimated the country's poultry stocks, Persikov's discovery is exploited as a means to correct the problem. As foreign agents, the state and the Soviet media all seize upon the red ray, matters get out of hand -
| ISBN | 1846882680 | | Translator | Roger Cockrell | | ISBN13 | 9781846882685
(What's this?) | | Pages | 144 | | Publisher | Alma Books Ltd | | Published in | Surrey | | Imprint | Alma Books Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9781847492685 | | Format | Paperback | | Academic level | General | | Publication date | 26 Apr 2012 | |
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'The exuberance of it - has to enliven the reader, and make us laugh.' Doris Lessing 'Bulgakov was not merely a brilliant observer of what was going on around him, but had an uncanny ability to pick out the particular manifestations of folly and discord which would set the tone of the era to follow.' The Guardian 'Cockrell's self-effacing, fluent prose restores the elegant irony of the original, while rising to the challenge of Bulgakov's occasionally astride medical lexicon.' TLS  Be the first to write a customer review
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