WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog & attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles & pituitary gland of a recently deceased man A distinctly worryingly human animal is now on the loose & the professor's hitherto respectable life becomes a nightmare beyond endurance An absurd & superbly comic story this classic novel can also be read as a fierce parable of the Russian Revolution