Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master & Margarita is a fiercely satirical fantasy that remained unpublished in its author's home country for over thirty years This Penguin Classics edition is translated with an introduction by Richard Pevear & Larissa Volokhonsky the acclaimed translators of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina In Soviet Moscow God is dead but the devil
- to say nothing of his retinue of demons from a loudmouthed gun-toting tomcat to the fanged fallen angel Koroviev
- is very much alive As death & destruction spread through the city like wildfire condemning Moscow's cultural elite to prison cells & body bags only a madman the Master & Margarita his beautiful courageous lover can hope to end the chaos Written in secret during the darkest days of Stalin's reign & circulated in samizdat form for decades when The Master & the Margarita was finally published it became an overnight literary phenomenon signalling artistic freedom for Russians everywhere This luminous translation from the complete & unabridged Russian text is accompanied by an introduction by Richard Pevear exploring the extraordinary circumstances of the novel's composition & publication & how Bulgakov drew on carnivalesque folk traditions to create his ironic subversion of Soviet propaganda This edition also contains a list of further reading & a note on the text After finishing high school Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) entered the Medical School of Kiev University graduating in 1916 He wrote about his experiences as a doctor in his early works Notes of a Young Country Doctor His later works treated the subject of the artist & the tyrant under the guise of historical characters but The Master & Margarita is generally considered his masterpiece If you enjoyed The Master & Margarita you might like Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels also available in Penguin Classics' One of the great novels of the 20th century a scary darkly comic allegory' Daily Telegraph

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY WILL SELF The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons including a naked girl & a huge black cat When he leaves the asylums are full & the forces of law & order in disarray Only the Master a man devoted to truth & Margarita the woman he loves can resist the devil's onslaught ...

" My favorite novel -it&s just the greatest explosion of imagination craziness satire humor & heart" Daniel Radcliffe The devil with his retinue a poet incarcerated in a mental institution for speaking the truth & a startling re-creation of the story of Pontius Pilate constitute the elements out of which Mikhail Bulgakov wove The Master & Margarita the unofficial masterpiece of twentieth-century Soviet fiction Long suppressed in its native land this account of strange doings in Moscow in the 1930s provides us with the essence of the sceptical trenchant unadulterated voice of dissent ...

Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series The Master & Margarita is here presented in a new translation & a wealth of extra material 448 pages Bulgakov Mikhail ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Paul Thomas Anderson writes & directs this Academy Award-nominated drama about a US Navy veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who seeks salvation in the company of a charismatic cult leader Joaquin Phoenix stars as Freddie Quell a troubled drifter who arrives home to post-WWII America shaken disillusioned & fearful of the future A raging alcoholic Quell cannot begin to make sense of his deeply-rooted inner torment let alone surmount it When he meets Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) the &master& of a cult called The Cause an intense & ambiguous relationship develops between the two men But do Dodd&s teachings hold the power to turn Quell&s life around? Actors Philip Seymour Hoffman Joaquin Phoenix Amy Adams Laura Dern & Rami Malek Director Paul Thomas Anderson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Screen Widescreen Languages English
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Experience Jet Li the star of Hero Kiss of the Dragon & Unleashed in an all-action adventure that showcases the martial arts skills which made him 5-time Chinese National Wushu Champion Acclaimed directorproducer Tsui Hark (Once Upon a Time in China) presents the story of a young Kung Fu champion (Jet Li) who becomes embroiled in a violent vendetta against his former master & must use his amazing martial arts skills to survive on the brutal streets of Downtown Los Angeles Reel after reel of fast direct street-effective martial arts action culminates in an incredible one-on-one finale between Jet Li & Light Welterweight World Kickboxing Champion Jerry Trimble Special Features
- Digitally re-mastered & restored 169 Anamorphic version enhanced for widescreen TVs
- DVD Transfer created from a High Definition master
- Dual Language Format (English Dubbed & Cantonese with re-mastered English subtitles)
- SDH subtitle option
- Dolby Digital 51 audio tracks
- Original Cantonese mono audio track
- Exclusive feature-length audio-commentary with Hong Kong film expert Bey Logan
- The Master an exclusive interview with prolific Kung Fu Legend Yuen Wah
- Crystal Clear an exclusive interview with leading lady Crystal Kwok
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The Hugely popular Christopher Hart simplifies professional anime art so readers can develop their own original characters It



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A building full of secrets A key that will unleash them all The K Apartments for Ladies in Tokyo conceals a sinister past behind each door; a woman who has buried a child; a scavenger driven mad by ill-health; a wife mysteriously guarding her late husband's manuscripts; a talented violinist tortured by her own guilt The master key which opens the door to all 150 rooms links their tangled stories But now it has been stolen & dirty tricks are afoot For a deadly secret lies buried beneath the building & when it is revealed there will be murder ...

Set at the time of the Jacobite uprising The Master of Ballantrae tells of a family divided James Durie Master of Ballantrae abandons his ancestral home to support the Scottish rebellion
- leaving his younger brother Henry who is faithful to the English crown to inherit the title of Lord Durrisdeer But he is to return years later embittered by battles & a savage life of piracy on the high seas to demand his inheritance Turning the people against the Lord he begins a savage feud with his brother that will lead the pair from the Scottish Highlands to the American Wilderness Satanic & seductive the Master was regarded by Stevenson as 'all I know of the devil'; his darkly manipulative schemes dominate this subtle & compelling tragedy This edition takes as its text the Edinburgh Edition of the novel the last approved by the author The introduction considers the novel's inspiration & its place as one of Stevenson's greatest studies in cruelty
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Go is a game of strategy in which two players attempt to surround each other's black or white stones Simple in its fundamentals infinitely complex in its execution it is an essential expression of the Japanese sensibility & in his fictional chronicle of a match played between a revered & invincible Master & a younger more progressive challenger Yasunari Kawabata captured the moment in which the immutable traditions of imperial Japan met the onslaught of the twentieth century The competition between the Master of Go & his opponent Otake is waged over several months & layered in ceremony But beneath the game's decorum lie tensions that consume not only the players themselves but their families & friends
- tensions that turn this particular contest into a duel that can only end in one man's death Luminous in its detail both suspenseful & serene The Master of Go is an elegy for an entire society written with the poetic economy & psychological acumen that brought Kawabata the Nobel Prize for Literature
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