Reader(s): McMillan, Roy
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Catalogue No: NA0002
Barcode: 9781843794028
Release Date: 01/2010

BULGAKOV, M.: Dog's Heart (A) (Unabridged)

When a respected surgeon decides to transplant human body parts into a stray dog, he creates a monster—drunken, profligate, aggressive and selfish. It seems the worst aspects of the donor have been transplanted as well. As his previously well-regulated home descends into riotous chaos, the doctor realises he will have to try to reverse the operation; but the dog isn’t so keen…

Wild, uproarious and deliriously comic, Bulgakov’s short novel is at once a comment on the problems of 1920s Russia and a lasting satire on human nature.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Bulgakov, Mikhail - Author
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
1 1. Awoooooo- wo- wo- woo! O, look at me… 06:06
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2 'My God!… Such weather… oh…' 06:06
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3 'Enough for now…' The gentleman spoke haltingly… 05:19
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4 2. There is absolutely no reason to learn… 06:53
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5 'Where are you going, you shaggy devil?!' 06:05
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6 The opposite carved door opened… 05:46
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
7 He disappeared to be replaced by a rustling… 06:49
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
8 The four fell silent again… 05:52
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
9 Philip Philippovich took the receiver off the hook… 06:14
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
10 3. Thinly sliced salmon and marinated eel… 06:06
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
11 Philip Philippovich rang and Zina came in… 05:00
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
12 'Here's what it is…' 05:45
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13 4. But none of it happened. 05:23
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 2
1 As they passed the streetcar rails… 05:40
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
2 And then, on that terrible day… 06:00
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
3 The dog decided he felt the most hatred… 06:10
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
4 The implement flashed in the hands… 06:12
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
5 5. The notebook of Doctor Ivan Arnoldovich Bormenthal. 05:00
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
6 (There is a break in the writing…) 04:23
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
7 January 8. Late in the evening… 05:06
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
8 January 12. He placed his hands in his trouser pockets… 05:45
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
9 6. It was a winter night. 05:06
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
10 Philip Philippovich shook his head and spoke… 07:21
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
11 The man maintained a victorious silence… 06:55
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
12 Philip Philippovich compressed his lips… 05:08
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
13 'There he is!' Daria Petrovna shouted… 05:03
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
14 'What are you sloshing it all around the apartment for…' 05:07
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
Disc 3
1 7. 'No, no and no,' Bormenthal spoke insistently… 05:16
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
2 'You should read something, at least,' he offered… 06:09
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
3 'Oh, it looks like our apartment…' 04:51
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
4 8. No one knows what Philip Philippovich had decided… 06:10
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
5 Furballov swayed, opened his completely glazed eyes… 05:57
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
6 Philip Philippovich stopped him with a gesture… 06:10
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
7 Bormenthal rolled up his sleeves suddenly… 05:53
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
8 9. The showing promised by Doctor Bormenthal… 05:04
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
9 'Doctor, I'm begging you.' 05:01
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
10 Then the door opened ceremoniously… 05:20
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
11 The crime ripened and fell like a stone… 04:57
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
12 Epilogue 04:01
McMillan, Roy (Reader)
13 'I don't understand,' the man in black said… 04:09
McMillan, Roy (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 03:45:18