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by Mikhail Bulgakov

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Book One

The Master and Margarita takes place in two worlds: Moscow, between Wednesday night and the following Saturday night, and Pilate's world, 2000 years before in Yershayalim, during Passover. The novel begins on a Wednesday night in Moscow at Patriarch's Ponds, where Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz and Ivan Nikolaevich Ponyrev have a mysterious encounter with Professor Woland, who is the devil. He challenges their atheism with a story, which is the reader's first introduction to Pilate's world. Pilate is questioning Yesha Ha-Nozri; though he does not want to condemn Yeshua, he realizes he must after he asks Yeshua about his conversation with Yehudah of Kerioth. Yehudah had betrayed him in front of state authority. After being pressured…

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Posted By nicole t #135591 at Apr 20, 2010 9:18 PM

important quotes

i think its important to discuss the important quotes in this book.

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Posted By alexander s #162775 at Dec 18, 2010 9:51 PM

Margarita's Attic

In my copy of the book on page 252 it says:
"After a cup of tea she went into their dark, windowless attic"
But in the beginning of Chapter 20 ("Azazello's Cream" on page 263) it says "A triple casement window in the attic, open but with the blind drawn, shone with a glare of electric light. Every lamp was burning in Margarita Nikolayevna's bedroom and lighting up the chaotically untidy room."
My question is this - does the attic have windows, or is the use of the word "attic" in the second phrase referring to the light being emitted from the the top floor?

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