Cover: Early Snow by Konstantin Kryzhitsky (died 1911) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
In the winter of 1918, as armies fight over Kyiv, the Turbin family and their friends sit in their apartment, waiting for the city to fall. Bulgakov's first novel is a warm, bitter portrait of a vanishing class. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
