About the Book: The Master and Margarita: Picador Classic
'A fully annotated translation of the most complete text of Bulgakovs exuberant
comic masterpiece. A literary sensation from its first publication, The Master
and Margarita has become an astonishing phenomenon in Russia and has been
translated into more than twenty languages, and made into plays and films.
Mikhail Bulgakovs novel is now considered one of the seminal works of
twentieth-century Russian literature. In this imaginative extravaganza the
Devil, disguised as a magician, descends upon Moscow in the 1930s with his
riotous band, which includes a talking cat and an expert assassin. Together they
succeed in comically befuddling a population