Red Classics Master And Margarita - Softcover

Bulgakov, Mikhail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141188286 ISBN 13: 9780141188287

Publisher: Penguin Classic, 2006

Synopsis

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. A masterpiece of magical surrealism, a triumph of the imagination.' - "Sunday Telegraph", Books of the Century.

About this title

About the Author:

Mikhail Bulgakov was born in Kiev in May 1891. His sympathetic portrayal of White characters in his stories, in the plays The Days of the Turbins (The White Guard), which enjoyed great success at the Moscow Arts Theatre in 1926, and Flight (1927), and his satirical treatment of the officials of the New Economic Plan, led to growing criticism, which became violent after the play The Purple Island. He also wrote a brilliant biography of his literary hero, Jean-Baptiste Moliere, but The Master and Margarita is generally considered his masterpiece. Fame, at home and abroad, was not to come until a quarter of a century after his death at Moscow in 1940.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classic
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0141188286
• ISBN 13: 9780141188287
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 576