Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition The Master and Margarita, (Paperback)

from bokai

The definition of 'classic' often seems to be 'that book that everyone can recognize but no one has read. A classic in literature is a title you find on the reading lists of unfortunate high school students, or on 'best of' collections, or books you mean to read merely because you have seen one i...

from PekoeTheCat

I have heard and read, that the Master and Margarita concerns the nature of good and evil, God and Satan, Heaven and Hell, peace and light. So, naturally I turned to it for an answer to that perennial question which for so long has troubled us felines, and also, certain small children, namely: Do...

from AndrewBlackman

The devil is unleashed in Stalinist Moscow. The funny thing is that while the devil kills, maims and causes havoc throughout the city, he is very far from a traditional definition of evil. In fact, the character struck me as being more like an avenging angel, punishing people for various sins suc...

from dmsteyn

O goodness infinite, goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good. - John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book XII What is Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita about? I find that an impossible question to answer, at least, in a nutshell. The meaning of the novel...

from bardsfingertips

This is like Dante's Inferno meets Monty Python. This is like Hellraiser meets The Marx Brothers. This is like Milton's Paradise Lost meets The Far Side. It is absurd. It is also one of the funniest and best novels I have read in a long time. Every chapter is abounding with clever quips, absurdis...