A reissued edition of the definitive biography of Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The
Master and Margarita.
The Russian playwright and novelist Mikhail Bulgakov (1891 - 1940) is now widely
acknowledged as one of the giants of twentieth-century Soviet literature, ranking with
such luminaries as Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn. In his own lifetime, however, a casualty of
Stalinist repression, he was scarcely published at all, and his plays reached the stage only with
huge difficulty. His greatest masterpie. ..
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