The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov #literature award-winning Elle McNicoll

award-winning Elle McNicoll

ISBN: 9780008761455

Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie’s victims

and ending some seven decades later with the death of Hadrian

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov #literature award-winning Elle McNicollWritten in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign, The Master and Margarita became an overnight literary phenomenon when it was finally published it, signalling artistic freedom for Russians everywhere. Bulgakov's carnivalesque satire of Soviet life describes how the Devil, trailing fire and chaos in his wake, weaves himself out of the shadows and into Moscow one Spring afternoon. Brimming with magic and incident, it is full of imaginary,