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The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Name: The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Rating: 5 (23 reviews)
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN: 9780143108276

Mikhail Bulgakov · 1996 · 412 pages

Presents a satirical drama about Satan's visit to Moscow, where he learns that the citizens no longer believe in God. He decides to teach them a lesson by perpetrating a series of horrific tricks. Combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem.

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Ryan Holiday
“Master and Margarita, great!”
Jordan Peterson
“The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. A book from my great books list:”↗
PewDiePie
“I really, really loved it. 5 out of 5.”↗
Peter Thiel
“If you want something a little more intellectual, it’s probably the Bulgakov novel The Master and Margarita where the devil shows up in Stalinist Russia, and succeeds, and gives everybody what they want, and everything goes haywire. It’s hard, because no one believes he’s real.”
Jack Dorsey
“Just left the Spasso House. So beautiful. The ball in one of my favorite books, The Master and Margarita, is based around a ball there!”↗
Salman Rushdie
“The Devil comes to Moscow and, of course, makes trouble, accompanied by a cat shooting six-guns and an associate who disappears when he turns sideways. But Satan also helps the Master, a tortured writer, recover a manuscript he’d written and burned. One of the greatest Russian novels. Stalin didn’t like it.”↗
Marlon James
“Nude vampires, a gun-toting talking black cat, and devil as ultimate party starter aside, the miracle of this novel is that every time you read it, it’s a different book.”↗
Eileen Myles
“Bulgakov’s suffering under censorship yielded this sparkling novel in which Pontius Pilate shares space with a giant floating black cat, and elsewhere a man confined to a mental hospital for political reasons probably dreamed up the whole thing.”↗
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“This dark, absurd, and subversive treasure lay hidden for many years, even after Bulgakov’s death, such was the fear of reprisal for such a pointed, authentic stab at life under the tyrannical malevolence of Uncle Joe and the withering Soviet climate of the time.”↗
Renee DiResta
“@AlanLevinovitz this is my favorite fiction book. it's incredible writing. the opening is excellent. i also really like Faust.”↗
Pearl Jam
“Recommended by Jeff Ament.”↗
Annunziata Rees-Mogg
“@John_Stepek Great book”↗
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