A Young Doctor's Notebook: Zapiski yunovo vracha - Softcover

Bulgakov, Mikhail Afanasievich

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909669687 ISBN 13: 9781909669680

Publisher: JiaHu Books, 2013

Synopsis

A Young Doctor's Notebook is a collection of short stories by the Russian writer Mikhail Bulgakov. The stories were inspired by Bulgakov's experiences as a newly graduated young doctor practicing in a small village hospital in Smolensk province in revolutionary Russia. The stories initially appeared in Russian medical journals of the period, and were later compiled by scholars into book form.

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Review:

'One of the great classics of medical literature' --The Times

'Bulgakov's struggle with the dark Russian winter swirling outside his window symbolizes the lack of experience, loneliness, and the worry of breaking the Hippocratic oath that gnaws at the sleep of junior doctors everywhere' --British Medical Journal

'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' --A.S. Byatt

About the Author:

Born in Kiev in 1891 to Russian parents, Mikhail Bulgakov trained as a doctor and volunteered for the Red Cross on the outbreak of the First World War. He later enlisted as a doctor for the anti-Bolshevik White Army, before eventually giving up medicine to concentrate on literature. The Master and Margarita is his most famous work, and has been hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: JiaHu Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1909669687
• ISBN 13: 9781909669680
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 122