num_pages: 132
description: From the author of MASTER AND MARGARITA, BLACK SNOW and DIABOLIAD, a novel which features a Moscow professor who befriends a stray dog and transplants into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man, unleashing a human dog which turns the professor's life into a nightmare beyond endurance.
language: English
title: Heart of a Dog
titlecomplete: Heart of a Dog
characters: Poligraph Poligraphovich Sharikov, Darya Petrovna Ivanova, Zinaida Prokofievna Bunina, Schwonder, Dr. Philip Philipovich Preobrazhensky, Dr. Ivan Arnoldovich Bormenthal
genres: 20th Century, Russia, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Russian Literature, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, Humor
ratings_count: 56466
places: Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union
publisher: Bristol Classical Press