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The Master and Margarita
- Narrated by: Julian Rhind-Tutt
- Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
- Abridged Audiobook
- Release date: 04-25-11
- Language: English
- Publisher: Naxos AudioBooks
Regular price: $24.49
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Publisher's Summary
The Master and Margarita is one of the most famous and best-selling Russian novels of the 20th century, despite its surreal environment of talking cats, Satan, and mysterious happenings. Naxos AudioBooks presents this careful abridgement of a new translation in an imaginative reading by the charismatic Julian Rhind-Tutt. With War and Peace and Crime and Punishment among the Naxos AudioBooks best-sellers, this too promises to be a front title.
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- Sweener24
- Medway, MA USA
- 03-07-18
So needlessly long
About 2 hours too long. Well read though enjoyed the narrator thoroughly. Good story very brave topic when written.
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- Newt
- WI
- 10-02-17
An all time classic with wonderful narration
The narration is very animated and it makes a thrilling book even more exciting. Can't recommend it more
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- s. j. trull
- South
- 03-11-17
not for listening to without thinking.
great Russian book read because another author loved it but also from Eastern Europe. as always hard to remember names. not my casual reading.
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- Rosaldo
- 01-23-16
Definitely the best Russian novel
What made the experience of listening to The Master and Margarita the most enjoyable?
The extraordinary mixture of stories and characters in way similar to F. Kafka style of writing full of several parallel worlds, yet realistic and well managed to keep the reader focused and curious.
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Meena
- 06-10-11
Great
This was a great listen, very enjoyable. Highly recommended to anyone, you will not be disappointed.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful