Preface
Abbreviations
Transliteration
Dates
List of illustrations
Introduction
1. Legendary times and extraordinary adventures: the formative years
2. A calling without distinction: journalism, jottings and Notes on Shirt-cuffs
3. When empires fall: Diaboliada and Heart of a Dog
4. The heavenly city: The White Guard
5. A dramatic debut: The Days of the Turbins and Zoyka's Apartment
6. Brilliant work: A Country Doctor's Notebook
7. The race of life: Flight
8. The tinselled mantle: Crimson Island, 'The Engineer's Hoof', Moliere and the year of catastrophe
9. All in the wrong direction: unperformed plays and unpublished novels 1930-39
10. The sunset novel: The Master and Margarita
Conclusion
Appendix A: 'Aleksey's Dream' from The White Guard, translated by Michael Glenny
Appendix B: Letter from Mikhail Bulgakov of 28 March 1930 to the Soviet Government
Notes
Select bibliography
Index.
