Description
A daring analysis of the nature of good and evil, innocence and guilt, The Master and Margarita is the crowning achievement of one of the greatest Russian writers of the twentieth century.
About the Author
Born in Kiev in 1891 to Russian parents, Mikhail Bulgakov trained as a doctor and volunteered for the Red Cross on the outbreak of the First World War. He later enlisted as a doctor for the anti-Bolshevik White Army, before eventually giving up medicine to concentrate on literature. The Master and Margarita is his most famous work, and has been hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Reviews
A wild surrealistic romp ... Brilliantly flamboyant and outrageous. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita is a soaring, dazzling novel; an extraordinary fusion of wildly disparate elements. It is a concerto played simultaneously on the organ, the bagpipes and a pennywhistle, while someone sets off fireworks between the players' feet. * The New York Times *
A lasting fable about the human need for truth and the mysterious power of love. -- Elaine Feinstein
It's rare that you read something so compelling and exciting. For me, The Master and Margarita is the most exciting work of imagination that I've ever read. -- Daniel Radcliffe
One of the great writers of the twentieth century. -- A.S. Byatt
One of the greatest modern Russian novels. * The Independent *
What I find most extraordinary about The Master and Margarita is its scale, its daring, its sheer imaginative reach. Part satire, part love story, part mystical experience, it refuses to be pigeonholed. It's a book that makes other books look safe. -- Rupert Thomson
A gloriously ironic gothic masterpiece. -- Patrick McGrath
Book Information
ISBN 9781847497826
Author Mikhail Bulgakov
Format Paperback
Page Count 448
Imprint Alma Classics
Publisher Alma Books Ltd
Weight(grams) 350g