The White Guard
$26.03
- Hardcover
392 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2024
Summary
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues, this is a highly topical reprint of Bulgakov’s classic novel. Set in his native Kyiv in 1918, it vividly dramatizes a critical and contested period in the history of both countries, in which nationalists and Bolsheviks - amongst others - struggle for ascendancy.
Kyiv is in chaos. Russia has withdrawn from World War I but the Germans have set up a puppet government in Ukraine. Civil war rages - the Bolsheviks have seized power in Russia, but t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841594217 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841594210 |
| Author: | Mikhail Bulgakov, Michael Glenny, Orlando Figes |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 392 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 543g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm x 28mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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It’s a visceral book and very visual. It’s got little details that just take you there immediately. I don’t know what it would be like for someone who doesn’t know the history but to me, it feels like you’re watching something happen before your eyes. – Orlando Figes * Fivebooks.com *
Bulgakov’s love for Kiev at this time of the Russian civil war is reflected in two ways. There’s a boyish love, a proud schoolboy fascination with its workings and its lights and its cosiness under the snow, and a sorrowful adult’s love, looking down with a mixture of acceptance and bitterness at a great city being racked by fratricidal upheaval – James Meek * Guardian *
[Bulgakov] began as a journalist, and this served him well with The White Guard, whose prose is taut, concise, but lyrical too – Doris Lessing
About The Author
Mikhail Bulgakov
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian, later Soviet writer, medical doctor, and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century. He is best known for his novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, which has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century.
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