The Master and Margarita (Vintage Crucial Classics)

The Master and Margarita (Vintage Crucial Classics)

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Synopsis

One of the great imaginative novels of the century, a fierce political satire, filled with the most dazzling surreal humour. The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by two demons, a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the forces of law and order in disarray. Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, remain undiminished. The Master and Margarita is Bulgakov's last and most celebrated novel, completed in 1938 at the height of Stalin's purges and published for the first time in Russia in 1966.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 448
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07 Aug 2003

ISBN 10: 0099455722
ISBN 13: 9780099455721

Media Reviews
'A superb, stunning, allegorical novel' Nigel Jones, Independent
Author Bio
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) was born and educated in Kiev where he graduated as a doctor in 1916. He rapidly abandoned medicine to write some of the greatest Russian literature of this century. After a lifetime at odds with the stultifying Soviet regime, he died impoverished and blind in 1940, shortly after completing his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita. None of his major fiction was published during his lifetime.