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	Master (Doctor Who) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Master, however, managed to survive (through means unexplained in the finished film), his consciousness embodied in the form of a small, snake-like, amorphous entity that escapes the TARDIS after either a chance malfunction, or a trick of the Master's, forces the vessel to crash land on Earth in 1999.
		The novelisation of the film by Gary Russell posits that the modifications and alterations that the Master has made to his body over the years in attempts to extend his lifespan had allowed this continued existence, and the implication is that the "morphant" creature is actually another lifeform that the Master's consciousness possesses.
		The reason the Master was so emaciated when he appeared in The Deadly Assassin was explored in John Peel's novel Legacy of the Daleks, in which he attempted to capture the Doctor's granddaughter Susan Foreman, but was badly burned when she attacked him in self-defense and took possession of his TARDIS.
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	The Master and Margarita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Master and Margarita (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
		Ultimately, the novel deals with the interplay of good and evil, innocence and guilt, courage and cowardice, exploring such issues as the responsibility towards truth when authority would deny it, and the freedom of the spirit in an unfree world.
		The novel is heavily influenced by Goethe's Faust.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita (1926 words)

	The Master: A Novel : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		In his latest novel Colm Tóibín so skilfully evokes the Master, in settings as diverse as Florence and Rye, that at times I became convinced I was reading Henry James's autobiography.
		The Master by contrast is a beautifully written book that evokes its character, Henry James, and his period period with sensitivity and intelligence.
		Described as "a great stranger...observing the world as a mere watcher from the window," James is a lonely, solitary figure throughout the novel, a man unable to form a committed relationship with anyone, either male or female, sometimes wanting companionship but not closeness, and always needing solitude to work.
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	Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita: a literary mystification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita: a literary mystification
		The Master represents the odious figure of M. Gorky, whom the Soviet regime officially endowed with the functions of supervising the whole literary process in the Soviet Russia.
		It is argued that the novel itself parodies the Faust and the City, a procommunist drama by A. Lunacharsky, the head of the department of Culture of the Soviet Union.
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	Mikhail Bulgakov. The Master and Margarita (1997)
		Then there were the qualities of the novel itself-- its formal originality, its devastating satire of Soviet life, and of Soviet literary life in particular, its 'theatrical' rendering of the Great Terror of the thirties, the audacity of its portrayal of Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate, not to mention Satan.
		The successive stages of his work on the novel, his changing evaluations of the nature of the book and its characters, reflect events in his life and his deepening grasp of what was at stake in the struggle.
		The touchstone character of the novel is Ivan Homeless, who is there at the start, is radically changed by his encounters with Woland and the master, becomes the latter's 'disciple' and continues his work, is present at almost every turn of the novel's action, and appears finally in the epilogue.
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	Rambles: Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master & Margarita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The novel is layered with cutaways as the main character, the Master, tells his story of Pontius Pilate, and the devil reminisces over the tale with mediocre poets in front of Patriarch's Pond.
		This novel was completed in the mid-1930s but was first released (in censored form) in 1967; it was created with all the fervor of an author who knew it would never be published.
		The entire novel jumps to life and is filled with such descriptive imagery you can't remember looking at words because all you see are the scenes.
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	Penguin Reading Guides \| The Master and Margarita \| Mikhail Bulgakov
		It may be tempting to see the master as a representation of the pure artist made to suffer in an environment that can accommodate neither him nor his art.
		But we are given to understand, though indirectly, that Yeshua (the name given to Jesus in the master's manuscript) considered cowardice among the worst of vices, and we must ask if it is not cowardice that causes the master to try to burn his manuscript.
		The hero of this influential novel embarks on a fraudulent moneymaking scheme involving the purchase of recently deceased serfs, or souls, from a series of increasingly bizarre owners.
	www.penguinputnam.com /static/rguides/us/master_and_margarita.html (1870 words)

	Master: The Master
		In Chapter 13 we are introduced to the Master as a man of about 38, which was Bulgakov's age in 1929, when he began the novel.
		Bulgakov, like the master, found himself in the position of being attacked in the press while most of his works were forbidden.
		In Bulgakov's earliest version of the novel, the role of the Master was played by Fesya, a scholar versed in demonology of the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance.
	cr.middlebury.edu /public/russian/Bulgakov/public_html/Master.html (317 words)

	Colm Tóibín
		Whatever Toibin's literary-critical and ideological interest in James, ''The Master'' is unquestionably the work of a first-rate novelist -- one who has for the past decade been writing excellent novels about people cut off from their feelings or families or both.
		Like some of the earlier novels, ''The Master'' seeks to build its portrait of an emotionally hobbled person by moving back and forth between a crisis in the character's present to illuminating episodes from his past.
		From this novel's haunted and haunting first line -- ''Sometimes in the night he dreamed about the dead'' -- ''The Master'' is wholly of the present, and stylistically belongs to Toibin alone, who achieves a new level of terse economy both in his descriptive passages and particularly in the dialogue.
	www.colmtoibin.com /books/fiction/themaster/reviews/newyorktimes.html (2071 words)

	The Fencing Master: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		If I were to choose the two best novels by this author, they would be The Nautical Chart and The Queen of the South.
		The Fencing Master, by comparison, isn't as lively or as intellectually thrilling -- but it is a chewy read.
		Don Jaime Astarloa is an aging fencing master, living in the second half of the nineteenth century, during a time of political difficulties in Spain.
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	University of Nevada Press - The Master of Monterey (a novel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The American conquest of California is the subject of Lawrence Coates's remarkable new novel, a tale rich in magical irony, fraught with caustic truths and wrenching insights into the human condition.
		The Master of Monterey is filled with heartbreaking irony and raucous energy—the story of the men who claimed the West and who, far from creating history, found themselves trapped within it.
		His first novel, The Blossom Festival, won the Western States Book Award for Fiction, the Utah Book Award, and was selected for the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Program.
	www.nvbooks.nevada.edu /m/master.html (429 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Master and Margarita (Vintage International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the context of the novel, Yeshua seems hopelessly naive, but by the end of the novel, you wonder if this may actually not be the author's central point.
		The master is tormented because his work was roundly rejected by the club house that was literary Moscow, and is seemed that not even Margarita's deep love for his could save him.
		The novel is a very bold and subversive book from both a literary and thematic/philosophical approach considering it was written in the peak of early Stalinism in the Soviet Union.
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	Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita: the true content (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It should be noted that in the early versions of The Master and Margarita, Bulgakov named Faust the character whom we have come to know as the Master.
		If the text of The Master and Margatita is read a bit more attentively, it becomes clear that there has never existed between the Master and Margarita anything which could be described as everlasting love.
		The Master and Margarita: the denominative notion of Master
	www.megaone.com /bulgakov (1909 words)

	Portrait of a portrait artist \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"The Master," a new biographical novel by Irishman Colm Tóibín, reflects all the brilliance and challenge of Henry James's work, sweeping through the author's life and mind with a scope that's both broad and precise.
		The novel opens in London during preparations for "Guy Domville," a play James wrote when he sensed (incorrectly) that his days as a novelist were over.
		As the novel moves through James's relationships with his sister, his cousin, a friend's butler, and a young sculptor, we see again and again the same tension between his attraction to these people and a desperate need to withhold himself from them.
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		James responds to this disappointment by retreating from the London social scene, a pattern of withdrawal that defines his life.
		Tóibín’s novel moves back and forth in time, as James looks back at the people and major and mundane events in his life.
		It is an existence as dominated by his refusal to embrace intimacies and causes as it is by literary accomplishment.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Tales of the Master Race: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The author contrasts her characters' unexceptional concerns with the extraordinariness of their historical context; the Holocaust is a faint but insistent rumbling in the background of most of these quotidian dramas.
		But the intricacy of the novel's overall structure makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts, as details from one tale turn up in another, given additional resonance by the reader's knowledge of their previous uses, a knowledge the characters lack.
		Tales about an adulterous wife who leaves her husband for the chief of police, a woman suffering the ating effects of a stroke, a young girl trying out for the gymnastics team are all distorted by the fact that they take place in Nazi Germany.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0060166444 (357 words)

	Powell's Books - The Master Signed 1st Edition by Colm Tóibín
		Time and again, James, a master of psychological subtlety in his fiction, proves blind to his own heart and incapable of reconciling his dreams of passion with his own fragility.
		In The Master, he has written his most ambitious and heartbreaking novel, an extraordinarily inventive encounter with a character at the cusp of the modern age, elusive to his own friends and even family, yet astonishingly vivid in these pages.
		"Tóibín's enthralling novel displays — in a manner that is masterly — the wit and metaphorical flair, psychological subtlety and phrases of pouncing incisiveness with which a great novelist captured the nuances of consciousness and duplicities of society."
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	Master and Margarita: Novel and Play
		In light of Margarita’s willingness to give her life for the novel, I believe that the manuscript is much more important to her than to the Master.
		To Master, the idea of Pontius Pilate and religion represent truth – a truth that is suppressed by the Stalinist state, which consequently drives him into insanity.
		When his novel is critiqued so harshly, he loses faith in himself as a writer and in humanity as a whole for suppressing the creative process.
	www.realc.emory.edu /MM/Weeks9-10.html (405 words)

	McClelland and Stewart Ltd: Books
		In stunningly resonant prose, Tóibín captures nineteenth-century European landscapes and the loneliness and longing, the hope and despair of a man who never married, never resolved his sexual identity, and whose forays into intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love.
		In The Master, Colm Tóibín has written his most powerful novel, one that enters the mind and soul of Henry James, the man and the writer, to give us a true portrait of the artist.
		“The Master reflects all the brilliance and challenge of Henry James’s work, sweeping through the author’s life and mind with a scope that’s both broad and precise.… A beautiful, haunting portrayal that measures the amplitude of silence and the trajectory of a glance in the life of one of the world’s most astute social observers.”
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	The Fencing Master: A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In his fourth novel translated into English, the Spanish writer changes centuries (if not his focus on homicide), returning to the mid-1800s to follow the exploits of Don Jaime Astarloa, the eponymous fencing master.
		In Madrid, in 1868, Don Jaime, fencing master and anachronistic man of honor, is working on his Treatise on the Art of Fencing.
		One day he is approached by a mysterious woman who seeks to learn the secret of "the unstoppable thrust," a supreme moment at the very heart of the art of fencing.
	www.enotalone.com /books/0156006847.html (1297 words)

	The Master Book at Shop Ireland
		The Master begins as Henry James's career stumbles on the stage of a London playhouse.
		He has turned from prose to drama, from the lonely world of a novelist, to the glamour, the youth, the beauty and, most of all, the companionship of the theatre.
		The Master is a marvel of creation, not of plot; the novel engrosses because of those we get to meet, not because of what these people do.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0330485652 (1260 words)

	Powell's Books - The Master by Colm Tóibín (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Master is provocative, nuanced portraiture; Tóibín is a master himself at masking and unmasking, at revealing exactly what he must and nothing more.
		I was not particularly attached to Henry James (though this novel has provoked a renewed interest), nor am I often fond of historical or biographical fiction.
		Toibin's pacing and prose are exquisite; his novel is a graceful, thoughtful meditation on writing and philosophy, as well as an astute exercise in psychology.
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	Off the Page: Colm Toibin (washingtonpost.com)
		A conundrum about Henry James was how such a master of insight into the human heart could appear to be so divorced from his own.
		The four novels of his that from the age of about 19--and I did not study them at university, I read them for pleasure, they meant a great deal to me--they are The Portrait of a Lady, Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl.
		I suppose there are things in the novel, THE STORY OF THE NIGHT, which were exciting to write at the time, but I'm not sure about favorites.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A6276-2004Jun1.html (2171 words)

	The Master of Petersburg : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Set in 1869, when Dostoevsky was summoned from Germany to St. Petersburg by the sudden death of his stepson, the novel is at once a compelling mystery steeped in the atmosphere of pre-revolutionary Russia and a brilliant and courageous meditation on authority and rebellion, art and imagination.
		The ingenuity of THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG lies in Cozetee's mindful association of the fantasized entities in his novel to Dostoevsky and his heroes, especially Raskolnikov, the underground man, and even Ivan Karamazov.
		He must have read countless translations of Russian novels, particularly Dostoevskiy's (and perhaps even the original texts?) in order to begin to feel the cadence and rhythm of the language.
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	The Master and Margarita (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Combining romance, supernatural events, and wry and slapstick humor, The Master and Margarita is based on the classic novel by Mikhail Bulgakov.
		The Master and Margarita tells the story of a writer who is imprisoned by the Soviet authorities for writing a subversive novel.
		The devil does her one better by not only reuniting the lovers for all eternity, but exacting revenge on all those responsible for their separation.
	www.redeemable.com /master_and_margarita.htm (175 words)

	The Master and Margarita movie,trailer,review,pics,pictures,poster,news,DVD at The Z Review
		Schamus specifically denied ever having written a screenplay based on "The Master and Margarita".Since I represent a party who has negotiated to acquire an exclusive option on the motion picture rights in this novel I am very curious as to the origin of this report in the Z Review.
		It has been reported that Tom Twyker is making an adaptation of novel The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov.
		This page has no intention to infringe on the rights of the film and intellectual copyright holders of The Master and Margarita and hold copyright over the movie, characters, merchandise and storyline.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/m/masterandmargitathe.htm (261 words)

	The Master : A Novel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Master : A Novel Review: As I was nearing the end of this book, a passage said to Henry by his brother seemed to distill the essence of the novel.
		The Master : A Novel Review: This well written book on Henry James does a super job of linking events in the life of James with his novels and short stories without making overt connections, everything is implicit, much like the work of the master writer himself.
		He was the outsider, the observer, the one who withdrew from confrontation, from relationships, from sexual gratification, and some may think that this lead to his genius and wonderful gifts to world literature.
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