Chronology vii
Introduction xi
A Note on the Text and Acknowledgements xxiii
Further Reading xxiv
The Master and Margarita
BOOK ONE
Never Talk with Strangers
7 (12)
Pontius Pilate
19 (23)
The Seventh Proof
42 (5)
The Chase
47 (8)
There were Doings at Griboedov's
55 (12)
Schizophrenia, as was Said
67 (8)
A Naughty Apartment
75 (11)
The Combat between the Professor and the Poet
86 (9)
Koroviev's Stunts
95 (9)
News From Yalta
104 (11)
Ivan Splits in Two
115 (4)
Black Magic and Its Exposure
119 (14)
The Hero Enters
133 (18)
Glory to the Cock!
151 (8)
Nikanor Ivanovich's Dream
159 (12)
The Execution
171 (12)
An Unquiet Day
183 (12)
Hapless Visitors
195 (22)
BOOK TWO
Margarita
217 (13)
Azazello's Cream
230 (5)
Flight
235 (13)
By Candlelight
248 (13)
The Great Ball at Satan's
261 (15)
The Extraction of the Master
276 (23)
How the Procurator Tried to Save Judas of Kiriath
299 (11)
The Burial
310 (21)
The End of Apartment No. 50
331 (16)
The Last Adventures of Koroviev and Behemoth
347 (12)
The Fate of the Master and Margarita is Decided
359 (5)
It's Time! It's Time!
364 (12)
On Sparrow Hills
376 (3)
Forgiveness and Eternal Refuge
379 (6)
Epilogue 385 (12)
Notes 397

The devil comes to Moscow wearing a fancy suit. With his disorderly band of accomplices - including a demonic, gun-toting tomcat - he immediately begins to create havoc. Disappearances, destruction and death spread through the city like wildfire and Margarita discovers that her lover has vanished in the chaos. Making a bargain with the devil, she decides to try a little black magic of her own to save the man she loves