The Master and Margarita (Penguin Classics)
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 includesThe 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'sThe Satanic Verses.Richard PevearandLarissa Volokhonskyhave produced acclaimed translations of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, and Bulgakov. Their translation ofThe Brothers Karamazovwon the 1991 PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. They are married and live in Paris, France.