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        The Master and Margarita


        setting

        Moscow, Soviet Union

        time

        1930s

        language

        Russian-slavic

        region

        Eastern Europe

        year published

        1966

        page count

        360

        difficulty

        Difficult

        main characters

        The Master, Margarita, Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz

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        first line

        At the sunset hour of one warm spring day two men were to be seen at Patriarch's Ponds. The first of them--aged about forty, dressed in a greyish summer suit--was short, dark-haired, well-fed and bald. He carried his decorous pork-pie hat by the brim and his neatly shaven face was embellished by black hornrimmed spectacles of preternatural dimensions.

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