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- Published: 10 October 2007
- ISBN: 9780140455465
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $28.00
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The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
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Reissued in Black Classics to coincide with the new translation of other two magnificent Bulgakov titles
The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc.
Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain with the devil, she decides to try a little black magic of her own to save the man she loves ...
- Published: 10 October 2007
- ISBN: 9780140455465
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 432
- RRP: $28.00
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About the author
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916, but gave up the practice of medicine in 1920 to devote himself to literature. In 1925 he completed the satirical novella The Heart of a Dog, which remained unpublished in the Soviet Union until 1987. This was one of the many defeats he was to suffer at the hands of his censors. By 1930 Bulgakov had become so frustrated by the political atmosphere and the suppression of his works that he wrote to Stalin begging to be allowed to emigrate if he was not to be given the opportunity to make his living as a writer in the USSR. Stalin telephoned him personally and offered to arrange a job for him at the Moscow Arts Theatre instead. In 1938, a year before contracting a fatal illness, he completed his prose masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. He died in 1940. In 1966-7, thanks to the persistance of his widow, the novel made a first, incomplete, appearance in Moskva, and in 1973 appeared in full.
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Praise for The Master and Margarita (Vintage Classic Russians Series)
Maddening, perplexing, a book you might throw across the room. But you keep reading because it's too funny, too absurd, too much like real life even with the gun-toting cat
Marlon James, The Week