The Master and Margarita

By Mikhail Bulgakov, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor

Advent through Simon Franklin; Translation via Michael Glenny

Show description

Preview of The Master and Margarita PDF

Best Fiction books

Dark Blood (Logan McRae, Book 6)

The #1 bestselling crime sequence from the award-winning Stuart MacBride. during this 6th DS Logan McRae mystery, Scotland’s most interesting see first-hand how beginning back might be murder…Everyone merits a moment probability. Richard Knox has served his time, so why shouldn’t he be allowed to dwell anyplace he desires?

The Name of the World: A Novel

The acclaimed writer of Jesus' Son and Already lifeless returns with a stunning, haunting, and darkly comedian novel. The identify of the realm is a enchanting portrait of a professor at a Midwestern college who has been sufferer in his grief after an twist of fate takes the lives of his spouse and baby and has authorised that grief to magnify him.

Godiva: A Novel

Nicole Galland, writer of The Fool’s story, turns her shrewdpermanent pen towards re-imagining the recognized legend of woman Godiva during this expertly crafted ancient novel set in Anglo-Saxon England. A 12th-century noblewoman, woman Godiva is notorious for using bare via Coventry to alleviate her humans of her husband’s unfair and oppressive taxation.

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers)

Keep on with a motley workforce on an exhilarating trip via space—and one adventurous younger explorer who discovers the which means of relatives within the some distance reaches of the universe—in this light-hearted debut house opera from a emerging sci-fi superstar. Rosemary Harper doesn’t count on a lot while she joins the team of the getting older Wayfarer.

Additional info for The Master and Margarita

Show sample text content

Every little thing residing obtained washed off Sadovaya, and there has been not anyone to avoid wasting Ivan Savelyevich. jumping via muddy rivers, below flashes of lightning, the bandits dragged the half-alive administrator in a break up moment to no. 302-bis, flew with him throughout the gateway, the place barefoot ladies, keeping their sneakers and stockings of their palms, pressed themselves to the wall. Then they dashed into the 6th front, and Varenukha, approximately insane, used to be taken as much as the 5th ground and thrown down within the semi-dark entrance corridor, so popular to him, of Styopa Likhodeev’s condominium. the following the 2 robbers vanished, and of their position there seemed within the entrance corridor a totally bare lady — red-haired, her eyes burning with a phosphorescent gleam. Varenukha understood that this used to be the main poor of all issues that had ever occurred to him and, moaning, recoiled opposed to the wall. however the woman got here correct as much as the administrator and put the arms of her arms on his shoulders. Varenukha’s hair stood on finish, simply because even in the course of the chilly, water-soaked textile of his Tolstoy shirt he may believe that these arms have been nonetheless chillier, that their chilly was once the chilly of ice. ‘Let me provide you with a kiss,’ the lady stated tenderly, and there have been shining eyes correct in entrance of his eyes. Then Varenukha fainted and not felt the kiss. bankruptcy eleven Ivan Splits in The woods at the contrary financial institution of the river, nonetheless lit up by way of the may possibly solar an hour past, grew to become boring, smeary, and dissolved. Water fell down in a superior sheet open air the window. within the sky, threads flashed each second, the sky saved bursting open, and the patient’s room was once flooded with a tremulous, scary mild. Ivan quietly wept, sitting on his mattress and searching on the muddy river boiling with bubbles. At each clap of thunder, he cried out pitifully and buried his face in his fingers. Pages lined with Ivan’s writing lay approximately at the flooring. that they had been blown down by way of the wind that flew into the room ahead of the hurricane all started. The poet’s makes an attempt to put in writing an announcement in regards to the negative advisor had long gone nowhere. once he acquired the pencil stub and paper from the fats attendant, whose identify was once Praskovya Fyodorovna, he rubbed his palms in a business-like method and rapidly settled himself on the little desk. the start got here out particularly glibly. To the police. From Massolit member Ivan Nikolaevich Homeless. a press release. the day gone by night I got here to the Patriarch’s Ponds with the deceased M. A. Berlioz ... ‘ And correct there the poet obtained stressed, regularly due to the notice ‘deceased’. a few nonsensicality emerged immediately: what’s this - got here with the deceased? The deceased don’t cross anyplace! fairly, for all he knew, they could take him for a madman! Having mirrored therefore, Ivan Nikolaevich started to right what he had written. What got here out this time was once: ‘... with M. A. Berlioz, as a result deceased... ’ This didn't fulfill the writer both. He needed to have recourse to a 3rd redaction, which proved nonetheless worse than the 1st : ‘Berlioz, who fell lower than the tram-car ...

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.80 of 5 – based on 45 votes