# The Master and Margarita

- Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
- Translator: Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
- Original title (Russian): Мастер и Маргарита
- First published: 1967
- Publisher: Penguin Classics
- This edition: 2016
- ISBN: 9780141180144
- Shelf: Tonight's Classic (one a night, from this pool); World Classics

## Card

The devil and his entourage arrive in 1930s Moscow and turn its literary and theatrical world upside down.  
Farce, satire and a solemn retelling of events in ancient Jerusalem run side by side, and the jumps between them crackle.  
For a night when the moon is full.  

## About this book

A foreign professor named Woland appears in a Moscow park and makes an unsettling prediction to two literary men. Soon he and his companions, among them a large talking cat, are staging a magic show and causing chaos in apartments and offices. Elsewhere, a writer known only as the Master has been broken by the reception of his novel about Pontius Pilate. Margarita, who loves him, is ready to go to great lengths to find him again.

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