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The Master and Margarita

(Vintage International)

By Mikhail Bulgakov

(118)

| Paperback | 9780679760801

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Book Description

Moscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town with a bizarre entourage that includes a giant talking cat and a fanged assassin, all hell breaks loose. Continue

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The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

First published 26 years after his death in 1940, Bulgakov's extraordinary satire of life under the political, cultural, religious and bureaucratic strictures of Stalinist tyranny has been variously described as Solzhenitsyn crossed with Lewis Carrol ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

Sympathy for the Devil

In an early chapter of Mikhail Bulgakov’s funny and frightening novel, The Master and Margarita, written between 1928 and 1940 and now available in four different English translations, a character loses his head – literally. He slips on a Moscow stre ... (read full critics)

lrb published on Mon, 6 Sep 2010

12 Reviews

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I don't know how many times I read it, four times maybe... I'm sure that if I would start reading it again, I would enjoy it just like the first time. A masterpiece.

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TonySz said on Jun 20, 2011 | Add your feedback

Masterpiece.

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Jgraham01900 said on Jun 18, 2011 | Add your feedback

The book worth reading in Russian like Crime and Punishment(Dostoevsky) or War and Piece (Tolstoy).

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Annet said on May 2, 2011 | Add your feedback

I think it takes more than one reading to understand it properly (and I haven't read it more than once), anyway it is brilliant!

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Chiaragattinoni said on Jun 12, 2010 | Add your feedback

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juan enrique said on Apr 26, 2009 | Add your feedback

I am situated squarely in the middle and will pick this book back up and finish it sometime this year. Although it is abandoned, I was enjoying it.

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Antonia said on Jan 2, 2009 | Add your feedback