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Red Classics Master And Margarita (Penguin Red Classics) by Mikhail Afanasʹevich Bulgakov is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com ReviewSurely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection. M

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Author
Mikhail Afanasʹevich Bulgakov
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Published
2006
Language
EN
ISBN
9780141188287
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Fantasy
Rating
4.32 / 5 (907 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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