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The Master and Margarita.: Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.
by BULGAKOV, Mikhail
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- Hardcover
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Collins and Harvill Press,, 1967. One of the greatest Russian-language novels of the 20th century First Glenny edition, first impression. Although the Glenny translation was beaten to the press in 1967 by that of Mirra Ginsburg, Ginsburg had taken as her copy text the heavy bowdlerized Soviet version. This version is complete and remains the standard English translation of one of the 20th century's literary masterworks. Octavo (203 x 134 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in red morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins, dark green endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy.
Synopsis
The Master and Margarita is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, woven around 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 novels of the 20th century, as well as one of the foremost Soviet satires, directed against a social order seen as suffocatingly bureaucratic.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 166006
- Title
- The Master and Margarita.
- Author
- BULGAKOV, Mikhail
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Collins and Harvill Press,
- Date Published
- 1967
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Morocco
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- Octavo
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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