'A glass of lemonade, please,'said Berlioz. It was the hour of the day when people feel too exhausted to breathe, when Moscow glows in a dry haze as the sun disappears behind the Sadovaya Boulevard-yet no one had come out for a walk under the limes, no one was sitting on a bench, the avenue was empty. There was an oddness about that terrible day in May which is worth recording : not only at the kiosk but along the whole avenue parallel to Malaya Bronnaya Street there was not a person to be seen. Reaching the shade of the budding lime trees, the two writers went straight to a gaily-painted kiosk labelled'Beer and Minerals'. The first was none other than Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz, editor of a highbrow literary magazine and chairman of the management cofnmittee of one of the biggest Moscow literary clubs, known by its abbreviation as massolit his young companion was the poet Ivan Nikolayich Poniryov who wrote under the pseudonym of Bezdomny.

The other, a broad-shouldered young man with curly reddish hair and a check cap pushed back to the nape of his neck, was wearing a tartan shirt, chewed white trousers and black sneakers. He carried his decorous pork-pie hat by the brim and his neatly shaven face was embellished by black hornrimmed spectacles of preternatural dimensions. The first of them-aged about forty, dressed in a greyish summer suit-was short, dark-haired, well-fed and bald. Never Talk to Strangers At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch's Ponds. 'Say at last-who art thou?' 'That Power I serve Which wills forever evil Yet does forever good.' Goethe, Faust 50 The Final Adventure of Koroviev and BehemothĢ9 The Fate of the Master and Margarita is Decided 30 Time to Go 31 On Sparrow Hills 32 Absolution and Eternal Refuge Epilogue Margarita Azazello's Cream The Flight By Candlelight Satan's Rout The Master is Released How the Procurator Tried to Save Judas of Karioth The Burial The Last of Flat No. Black Magic Revealed 13 Enter the Hero 14 Saved by Cock-Crow 15 The Dream of Nikanor Ivanovich 16 The Execution 17 A Day of Anxiety 18 Unwelcome Visitors book two 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28

Mikhail bulgakov Translated from the russian by Michael Glenny Collins and Harvill Press, London Printed in Great Britain by Collins Clear-Type Press London and Glasgow © 1967 in the English translation The Harvill Press, London, and Harper air Row Publishers Inc., New York OCR: ScoutĬontents BOOK ONE 1 Never Talk to Strangers 2 Pontius Pilate 3 The Seventh Proof 4 The Pursuit 5 The Affair at Griboyedov 6 Schizophrenia 7 The Haunted Flat 8 A Duel between Professor and Poet 9 Koroviev's Tricks 10 News from Yalta 11 The Two Ivans 12. The Master and Margarita -© Mikhail Bulgakov © Translated from the russian by Michael Glenny © 1967 Collins and Harvill Press, London OCR: Scout.

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