Manuscripts Don't Burn

A volume of the renowned Russian author’s letters and diary entries: “an evocative chronicle of [his] life, beginning with the 1917 revolution” ( The Guardian , UK). Mikhail Bulgakov was one of the most important literary voices of Soviet Russia. Yet his books were banned in his own country and his greatest novel, The Master and Margarita , was only published more than twenty years after his death. In Manuscripts Don't Burn —the title, a line from his famous novel—J.A. E. Curtis presents a gripp