Product Details
The Fatal Eggs

The Fatal Eggs
By Mikhail Bulgakov

List Price: CDN$ 17.95
Price: CDN$ 13.10 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping on orders over $39. Details

Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 2 months
Ships from and sold by Amazon.ca

9 new or used available from CDN$ 13.10

Average customer review:

Product Description

An inspired work of science fiction and a biting political allegory, Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs tells of a brilliant scientist whose experiments with life spiral terribly—and fatefully—out of control. Quite by chance, Professor Persikov discovers a new form of light ray whose effect, when directed at living cells, is to accelerate growth in primitive organisms. But when this ray is shone on the wrong batch of eggs, the Professor finds himself both the unwilling creator of giant hybrids and the focus of a merciless press campaign. For it seems the propaganda machine has turned its gaze upon him, distorting his nature in the very way his “innocent” tampering created the monster snakes and crocodiles that now terrorize the neighborhood. Russian novelist and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov is one of the foremost satirists of the 20th century.

Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #459992 in Books
  • Published on: 2005-08-01
  • Original language: English
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 116 pages

Editorial Reviews

Review
"'No aficionado of the genre could fail to be enchanted by this so perfect example' - From the foreword by Doris Lessing"

About the Author
Russian novelist and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) is one of the foremost satirists of the twentieth century and most famous for The Master and Margarita. Winner of the David Cohen British Literature Prize in 2001, foreword writer Doris Lessing is one of the most eminent figures in world literature.

Customer Reviews

Slow, predictable with some fantastic moments3
The satire element of this story is so oudated that it fails completly to enliven the functional prose, the tedious details and the very thin and predictable plot. But Bulgakov IS a great writer, and his genius shines in some intermitent episodes of the book .. and make it worth the while, it's only 100 pages after all.