Heart of a Dog, The (Vintage Classics), Bulgakov, Mikhail Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose, and the professor`s hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance.