title: A Dog's Heart: An Appalling Story
author:  Mikhail Bulgakov 
description: Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in May 1891. His sympathetic portrayal of White characters in his stories, in the plays The Days of the Turbins (The White Guard), which enjoyed great success at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1926, and Flight (1927), and his satirical treatment of the officials of the New Economic Plan, led to growing criticism, which became violent after the play The Purple Island. He also wrote a brilliant biography of his literary hero, Jean-Baptiste Moli&#232;re, but The Master and Margarita is generally considered his masterpiece. Fame, at home and abroad, was not to come until a quarter of a century after his death at Moscow in 1940.
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  # The Dog
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Arnold Bennett
  
  
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  THIS is a scandalous story. It scandalised the best people in
  
  
  Bursley; some of them would wish it forgotten. But since I have begun
  
  
  to tell it I may as well finish. Moreover, like most tales whispered
  
  
  behind fans and across clubtables, it carries a high and valuable
  
  
  moral. The moral — I will let you have it at once — is that those
  
  
  who love in glass houses should pull down the blinds.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  He had got his collar on safely; it bore his name — Ellis
  
  
  Carter. Strange name for a dog, perhaps; and perhaps it was even more
  
  
  strange that his collar should be white. But such dogs are not common
  
  
  dogs. He tied his necktie exquisitely; caressed his hair again with
  
  
  two brushes; curved his young moustache, and then assumed his
  
  
  waistcoat and his coat; the trousers had naturally 