The Master And Margarita

Only the Master, a man devoted to truth, and Margarita, the woman he loves, can resist the devil's onslaught. Written in the 1930s, with many digs at life under Stalin, the novel was not published until 1967. One of the most famous and bestselling Russian novels of the 20th century. "Rhind-Tutt gives a decidedly Cockney spin to his narration. But he also gives it mischief, invention, and unflagging energy… a fine reading of an important book."

The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven about the premise of a visit by the Devil to the fervently atheistic Soviet Union. Many critics consider the book to be one of the greatest Russian novels of the 20th century, as well as one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a suffocatingly bureaucratic social order.