The Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov

This is a very entertaining reading, but I do not agree with Bulgakov's view on the revolution, which is what he tries to deliver beneath the story. People are mistreated as dogs, and the revolution makes them live more like a human being, although it is a long way for them to become decent, cultivated. It damages the comfortable life of the previous middle-class, but this doesn't support the claim that people just deserve the fate of miserable dogs. Everyone, human being, animal, every thing, deserves equal right -- sadly, this claim fundamentally contradicts the law of this nature.

The book I read is a Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, published by Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. in 1968. No ISBN. I am so lucky that the particular copy I recalled from the Country of Los Angeles Public Library is Michael Glenny's translation. I searched in amazon.com and found out that the one with ISBN-13 978-1441480316 (ISBN-10 1441480315) is also Glenny's translation with slight modification, although the publisher is fishy. In amazon.co.uk, Glenny's translation is included in Vintage Classics, ISBN-13 978-0099529941 (ISBN-10 0099529947).