[mrGSH]

Rules as always plus some:
- one post till clue
- no edits
- post your country of origin
- post your LR number

So, here is a clue about the book. You would have to give an original title, what it is usually called, and who wrote it.
He wanted to become a witch like his friend's wife, and by mistake turned himself into an animal...

[vladb]

"The Master and Margarita"
Mikhail Bulgakov

Russia
U5391198

[still]

Mikhail Bulgakov started writing the novel in 1928. The first version of the novel was destroyed (according to Bulgakov, burned in a stove) in March 1930 when he was notified that his play The Cabal of Hypocrites (Кабала святош) was banned.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita

An original title was "The Cabal of Hypocrites"
The title of the book now is "The Master and Margarita"

Nikolai Ivanovich is a neighbor of Margarita's who also rubs the special cream on himself that had turned Margarita into a witch. Instead of taking on witchlike qualities, he is turned into a hog.


Russia
U7428927
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[mrGSH]

OK guys, I think I was around 10 when I read Master and Margarita first time in Moscow Magazine... It was a great book, even heavily edited. But it is not the one....
Here is a clue:
His cousins says that the friend's wife wants him (the protagonist) dead.

[vladb]

The Golden Ass (Metamorphoses)
Lucius Apuleius

Russia
U5391198

[mrGSH]

That is correct. Just so there is no "conspiracy theory", Lucius Apuleius wrote in Latin, not in Russian, but this famous book was translated in the most of the languages. I read it in Russian in my early teens, and in English a few years ago... I believe it is available in almost any library, and you can get it for free on line. Most of the adults I know have read this book.

[vladb]

Originally Posted by mrGSH

Rules as always plus some:
- post your country of origin
- post your LR number
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Originally Posted by mrGSH

Just so there is no "conspiracy theory", Lucius Apuleius wrote in Latin, not in Russian
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I understand that "your country" and "your LR number" is my country and my LR, not book`s author :-)

[mrGSH]

Somebody implied in the feedback thread, that some of us specifically make question to favor a certain group.... Like "Russians" so with this particular question, I am showing that even though you are not a "Roman", you still got the answer, and so could anybody else.....

Originally Posted by vladb

I understand that "your country" and "your LR number" is my country and my LR, not book`s author :-)

[vladb]

OK! Thank you!