Heart of a Dog
Bulgakov began writing prose with "The White Guard" (Белая гвардия) (1924, partly published in 1925, first full edition 1927–1929, Paris) – a novel about a life of a White Army officer's family in civil war Kiev. In the mid-1920s, he came to admire the works of H. G. Wells and wrote several stories with elements of science fiction, notably "The Fatal Eggs" (Роковые яйца) (1924) and "Heart of a Dog" (Собачье сердце) (1925). He intended to compile his stories of the mid-twenties (published mostly in medical journals) that were based on his work as a country doctor in 1916–1918 into a collection titled "Notes of a Young Doctor" (Записки юного врача), but he died before he could publish it.