The Devil arrives in Moscow on a spring afternoon, accompanied by a giant cat, a fanged assassin, and a naked witch, and Soviet literary society never recovers. Mikhail Bulgakov worked on this novel for over a decade, revising it on his deathbed in 1940, though it was not published until 1967, when a censored version astonished a generation. The novel braids three narratives: Satan's visit to atheist Moscow, the love story of the Master and his Margarita, and Pontius Pilate's encounter with Yeshua in Jerusalem. Bulgakov understood that in a society built on enforced materialism, the devil is the last theologian, and that art and love persist because they cannot be administered. The book is wild, sorrowful, hilarious, and free.