The White Guard

Vintage Classics

By: Mikhail Bulgakov

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Paperback | 6 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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304 Pages

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Set in Kiev during the Russian revolution The White Guard tells a story about the war's effect on a middle-class family and was turned into a hugely successful play on publication. It brought the author overnight success and became 'a new SEAGULL' for the new generation, although it also received hostile reviews for the sympathetic portrayal of White officers. Paradoxically, The White Guard was one of Stalin's favorite plays.

It was banned in 1929, reinstated in 1932 but published only in 1955.

About the Author

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.

Industry Reviews

A powerful reverie...the city is so vivid to the eye that it is the real hero of the book. * New Statesman *
One of those few emancipated Soviet writers who firmly believe-and still believe-that to create is to choose * Saturday Review *
Worth reading in any language * Library Journal *
The White Guard captures the tumult, madness and confusion of revolution * Independent *

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