num_pages: 396
description: One spring afternoon, the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow in Bulgakov's fantastical, funny and frightening satire on Soviet life. Brimming with magic and incident, it is full of imaginary, historical, terrifying and wonderful characters, from witches, poets and Biblical tyrants to the beautiful Margarita, who will do anything to save the imprisoned writer she loves. Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, when The Master and Margarita was finally published it became an overnight literary phenomenon, signalling artistic freedom for Russians everywhere.Cover photograph by Matt Dawson, winner of the Guardian and Penguin Modern Classics photography competition 2003.(back cover)
language: English
title: The Master and Margarita
titlecomplete: The Master and Margarita
characters: Behemot, Master, Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz, Azazello, Stephan Bogdanovich Likhodeyev, Margarita Nicolaevna, Pontius Pilate, Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyryov, Hella (The Master and Margarita), Lucifer, Korovyev, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, Natasha (The Master and Margarita)
genres: Classics, Magical Realism, Fantasy, Russia, Novels, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Fiction
ratings_count: 333693
places: Moscow, Jerusalem, Russia
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Premi Crítica Serra d'Or de Teatre i arts escèniques, awardedAt: 1388563200000
name: Read Russia Prize
category: 20th-Century Russian Literature for Alexander Nitzberg
publisher: Penguin Books