num_pages: 460
description: Russia's literary world is shaken to its foundations when a mysterious gentleman - a professor of black magic - arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a bizarre retinue of servants. It soon becomes clear that he is the Devil himself, come to wreak havoc among the cultural elite of a disbelieving capital. But the Devil's mission quickly becomes entangled with the fate of the Master - a man who has turned his back on his former life and taken refuge in a lunatic asylum - and his past lover, Margarita.(back cover)
language: English
title: The Master and Margarita
titlecomplete: The Master and Margarita
characters: Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz, Stephan Bogdanovich Likhodeyev, Pontius Pilate, Behemot, Azazello, Ivan Nikolayevich Ponyryov, Margarita Nicolaevna, Lucifer, Yeshua Ha-Nozri, Hella (The Master and Margarita), Master, Natasha (The Master and Margarita), Korovyev
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Literature, Classics, Novels, Russian Literature, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Russia, 20th Century
ratings_count: 333735
places: Moscow, Russia, Jerusalem
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: Oneworld Classics