The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov #literature Transformed from princess to pauper

Transformed from princess to pauper

award-winning Elle McNicoll

ISBN: 9780008761455

from describing the hedonism of 1980s New York to critiquing the government's dire response to the AIDS epidemic

and ending some seven decades later with the death of Hadrian

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov #literature Transformed from princess to pauperWritten 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,