{"product_id":"2026200009263-secondhand-a-country-doctors-notebook","title":"A Country Doctor's Notebook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA semi-autobiographical work of classic Russian fiction, A Country Doctor's Notebook draws directly from Mikhail Bulgakov's own harrowing experiences as a young physician posted to a remote rural district in early twentieth-century Russia. The collection chronicles a series of darkly comic and deeply human vignettes, as the inexperienced narrator confronts blizzards, epidemics, amputation, and the crushing weight of isolation armed with little more than medical textbooks and sheer willpower. Bulgakov's prose is sharp and unsentimental, yet suffused with a gallows humour that transforms each crisis into an unforgettable portrait of human endurance. Written before his celebrated masterpiece The Master and Margarita, this work stands as a remarkable testament to the author's literary genius and his unflinching examination of mortality, duty, and the fragile boundaries between the civilised and the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48888002347227,"sku":"2026200009263-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1d23598c-9e92-437c-84d8-b38039da461a.png?v=1781752201","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200009263-secondhand-a-country-doctors-notebook","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}