Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 208 pages | ISBN 9780140455144 | 04 Oct 2007 | Penguin Classic
This is Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theatre managers.