The Master and Margarita

Name: The Master and Margarita
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN: 9780143108474

Mikhail Bulgakov • 1967

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Ugly Crying

philosophical literary fiction political love injustice

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The devil visits Soviet Moscow and everything falls apart entertainingly, and underneath the satire is a love story, a manuscript, and a man being broken by a system that will not tolerate his art. Bulgakov wrote this knowing it would not be published in his lifetime. Every page carries that knowledge.

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► Literary Fiction That Will Make You Question Everything ► Mythology Retold — When the Old Gods Demand New Grief ► Censorship and Intellectual Freedom — What Burns When Books Burn ► Russian Literature — The Weight of the Russian Soul

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