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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire began working on the novel that became Master and Margarita
in the winter of 1928-29. He submitted one chapter, entitled "Mania
furibunda" ("Raving mania," roughly Chapter 5), to the journal
Nedra for publication, but we have only fragments today. This
earliest
edition apparently contained all the Jerusalem chapters and much of the
material about the Devil. The first manuscript edition, which Bulgakov
titled
The Engineer's Hoof, was destroyed by Bulgakov in
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