TY - BOOK AU - Bulgakov,Mikhail AU - Burgin,Diana Lewis AU - O'Connor,Katherine Tiernan AU - Proffer,Ellendea TI - The master and Margarita SN - 9781419756504 U1 - 891.73/42 20 PY - 1996/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Books KW - Good and evil KW - Fiction KW - Moscow (Russia) KW - Jerusalem KW - Political fiction KW - lcgft KW - Allegories N1 - Originally published in hardcover: Dana Point, Calif. : Ardis, 1995 N2 - One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing to literally go to hell for him. ER -