The Master and Margarita Paperback – Deckle Edge, 3 May 2016

Mikhail Bulgakov's written The Master and Margarita arrived just today. My significant other gifted this to me on my birthday! I have not started reading it till now, definitely have high expectations from this classic. Loved it!This book tells the love story of a man only named as 'The Master' and Margarita, while exploring the themes of good and evil, and how they are interrelated. This modern Russian classic literature promises that it deals with humor, social satire of Soviet life, and also sensual: so it was censored as it was written secretly during Stalin's dark reign. In short the book is about how a woman will go to any extent and will do anything to protect and bring back her man from imprisonment. This is the information I gathered before buying this book!Talking about the packaging it was okay: as they could take care of the book while packing, the edges were tampered just a little bit (refer to the picture). Delivery was unexpectedly before time, like they delivered it 3 days earlier, which pretty much impressed me to be honest. But in major part of the book the printing is not commendably: it's kind of hazy, though readable and not a big issue. Still I would prefer Penguin publishing house to take care of the printing and overall content. Rest everything is perfect.Thank you! If wondering whether to buy it or not, you should buy this no matter what. This is definitely worth reading.

This Penguin classics edition has the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation with the usual extra material of an introduction, chronology, further reading list, and notes at the end. The text of the book is towards the smaller side but it is still well readable so that's not an issue for me.The book is towards the floppy side which is good, its not rigid and difficult to hold while reading. It opens flat on its spine, making for a easy reading experience, and the spine won't crack unless one wrestles with it unnecessarily.

The book was delivered within 2 days from ordering. It came with slight tarnishes along the cover, but thankfully the text was legible and it had no dog-eared pages.

This book is nice and has talked about references used in the book in the last few pages. It was a great read, I recommend the book.

so pretty. The penguin classics are my favourite and the picture on the cover was soo elegantly perfect and reletable to the novel. I love woland and Ivan. Azazelleo is so pretty . The novel is well- written, and the characters are all elegantly perfect.

Before reading this book, I didn't have much exposure to Stalin-era literature, maybe except Dr Zhivago. This book is witty, funny, racy, brillant, religious, absurd, evocative, intriguing, lovelorn, and immortal. I was almost ready to write immoral, but in a deeper sense that would not have been true. His religion and deep sense of morality is veiled by irreverence, which, by the way, is quite misleading. But when the party is over and the fun there is only an intoxicating memory, you are not left high and dry. You will feel emotions coiling up inside your throat like a python. Your knees will tremble as you have never felt this fire, this burning, this catharsis. After finishing this book, you'll become one of the immortals too, for you can't be otherwise.

There are elements of magic and supernatural stuff. It's hard to decide whether to recommend this book or not. Looking back, I really enjoyed the narrative of Pontius Pilate, the fifth procurator of Judea!

The cover of the book is fragile and is splitting in the corner. The pages too are thin. Didn't expect this quality from Penguin. Other books that I've bought from this publisher have always been of better quality. Amazon might be trying to be environment friendly and skip the plastic wrap but this book needed it. The book on the other hand has always been on my wishlist and it's the only version that's in my budget so I'm still happy to be able to finally own a copy.