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The Master and Margarita

50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
By Mikhail Bulgakov
Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
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The Master and Margarita is a dazzling blend of satire and fantasy set in Soviet Moscow and ancient Jerusalem. When the Devil arrives in Moscow, chaos ensues, interweaving stories that explore artistic freedom, political oppression, and spiritual redemption. Written by Mikhail Bulgakov during Stalin's darkest days, this masterpiece delivers a timeless, vivid narrative filled with unforgettable characters and profound symbolism.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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The Master and Margarita

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A 50th-anniversary Deluxe Edition of the incomparable 20th-century masterpiece of satire and fantasy, in a newly revised version of the acclaimed Pevear and Volokhonsky translation.

Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow. Mikhail Bulgakov’s fantastical, funny, and devastating satire of Soviet life combines two distinct yet interwoven parts: one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem. Each part is brimming with historical, imaginary, frightful, and wonderful characters. Written during the darkest days of Stalin’s reign, and finally published in 1966 and 1967, The Master and Margarita became a literary phenomenon, signalling artistic and spiritual freedom for Russians everywhere.

This newly revised translation, by the award-winning team of Pevear and Volokhonsky, is made from the complete and unabridged Russian text.

Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

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Praised as a great explosion of imagination and satire, The Master and Margarita has captivated readers like Daniel Radcliffe and Patti Smith. Reviews highlight its changing meanings with each reading, and its powerful blend of irony, beauty, and horror. Noted as one of the twentieth century's truly great Russian novels, it garners acclaim for its humour, mystery, and contemplation.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143108276

Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 May 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Richard Pevear
  • Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky
  • Foreword by Boris Fishman
  • Illustrated by Christopher Conn Askew
  • Translated by Richard Pevear
  • Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky
  • Translated by Richard Pevear
  • Translated by Larissa Volokhonsky

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 143.0mm

Height: 211.0mm

Weight: 476g

Pages: 448

Collections

Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Humour Literary Fiction Mikhail Bulgakov Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition

About the Author

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) was a doctor, a novelist, a playwright, a short-story writer, and the assistant director of the Moscow Arts Theater. His body of work includes The White Guard, The Fatal Eggs, Heart of a Dog, and his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, published more than twenty-five years after his death and cited as an inspiration for Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses.

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (translators) have translated works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Chekhov, Gogol, and Pasternak. They were twice awarded the PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize, for their translations of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. Pevear, a native of Boston, and Volokhonsky, of St. Petersburg, are married and live in Paris.

Boris Fishman (foreword) is the author of two novels, A Replacement Life, which was one of The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2014 and won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and the American Library Association’s Sophie Brody Medal, and Don’t Let My Baby Do Rodeo. His journalism, essays, and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, the London Review of Books, The Wall Street Journal, and other publications. Fishman has taught at Princeton University and New York University. Born in Minsk, Belarus, he moved to the United States at age nine and now lives in New York.

Christopher Conn Askew (cover illustrator) is a painter and tattoo artist whose illustrations have appeared on the covers of books, albums, and magazines. He lives in Los Angeles.

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