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The Master and Margarita (Unabridged edition)
By Mikhail Bulgakov
Length17h 7m
About this audiobook
The Master and Margarita is a fantasy satirical novel published by his wife twenty-six years after his death, in 1966, that has granted him critical immortality. The book was available underground, as samizdat (“sam”+ “izdat” - “self-published”, Vladimir Bukovsky defined it as “I myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and [may] get imprisoned for it”), for many years in the Soviet Union, before the serialization of a censored version in the journal Moskva. A destroyed manuscript of the Master is an important element of the plot, and in fact Bulgakov had to rewrite the novel from memory after he burned the draft manuscript with his own hands.
The novel is a multilayered critique of the Soviet society in general and its literary establishment specifically. It begins with Satan visiting Moscow in the 1920s or 30s, joining a conversation of a critic and a poet, busily debating the existence of Jesus Christ and the Devil.
It then evolves into an all-embracing indictment of the corruption, greed, narrow-mindedness, and widespread paranoia of Soviet Russia. Banned but widely read, the novel firmly secured Bulgakov’s place among the pantheon of great Russian writers.
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Rating★★★★ 4.4 (510.6K)
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GenreOther, Literary Classics, General Fiction
Length17 hrs 7 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 13, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Epigraph
2Book I.
3Chapter 1 - Never Talk with Strangers
4Chapter 2 - Pontius Pilate
5Chapter 3 - The Seventh Proof
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6Chapter 4 - The Chase
7Chapter 5 - There were Doings at Griboedov’s
8Chapter 6 - Schizophrenia, as was Said
9Chapter 7 - A Naughty Apartment
10Chapter 8 - The Combat between the Professor and the Poet
11Chapter 9 - Koroviev’s Stunts
12Chapter 10 - News From Yalta
13Chapter 11 - Ivan Splits in Two
14Chapter 12 - Black Magic and Its Exposure
15Chapter 13 - The Hero Enters
16Chapter 14 - Glory to the Cock!
17Chapter 15 - Nikanor Ivanovich’s Dream
18Chapter 16 - The Execution
19Chapter 17 - An Unquiet Day
20Chapter 18 - Hapless Visitors
21Book II.
22Chapter 19 - Margarita
23Chapter 20 - Azazello’s Cream
24Chapter 21 - Flight
25Chapter 22 - By Candlelight
26Chapter 23 - The Great Ball at Satan’s
27Chapter 24 - The Extraction of the Master
28Chapter 25 - How the Procurator Tried to Save Judas of Kiriath
29Chapter 26 - The Burial
30Chapter 27 - The End of Apartment No.50
31Chapter 28 - The Last Adventures of Koroviev and Behemoth
32Chapter 29 - The Fate of the Master and Margarita is Decided
33Chapter 30 - It’s Time! It’s Time!
34Chapter 31 - On Sparrow Hills
35Chapter 32 - Forgiveness and Eternal Refuge
36Epilogue
37Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov
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