The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as Republic of Gilead, that has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman …
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The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as Republic of Gilead, that has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as "handmaids", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" – the ruling class of men. The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society and the various means by which they resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence. The novel's title echoes the component parts of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is a series of connected stories (such as "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Parson's Tale").The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award. The book has been adapted into a 1990 film, a 2000 opera, a 2017 television series, and other media. The ebook version was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.A sequel novel, The Testaments, was published in 2019.
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- 4025053
- BNF ID:
- 12398637r
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The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 479 pages
English language
Published July 6, 2016 by VINTAGE.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78487-144-4Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 311 pages
English language
Published March 16, 1998 by Anchor Books.
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- 978-0-7710-0879-5Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 49982302
El conte de la serventa
Paperback, 360 pages
Catalan language
Published July 5, 2018 by Quaderns Crema.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-7727-588-6Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 39320312
La servante écarlate
Paperback, 522 pages
French language
Published July 6, 2017 by Pavillons Poche/Robert Laffont.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-221-20332-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1142018288
- Goodreads:
- 60774314
The Handmaid's Tale
320 pages
English language
Published 2018
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- 978-1-78487-487-2Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 39789196
The Handmaid's Tale
Hardcover, 350 pages
English language
Published Nov. 6, 1986 by Jonathan Cape.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-224-02348-1Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 529 pages
English language
Published Nov. 6, 2017 by Large Print Press.
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- 978-1-4328-3848-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 1056986536
The Handmaid's Tale
402 pages
English language
Published Dec. 2, 1998 by Seal Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7704-2820-4Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 315 pages
English language
Published Sept. 10, 2019 by Anchor Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-9848-9966-8Copied ISBN!
Tjenerinnens beretning
284 pages
Norwegian language
Published Nov. 6, 1987 by Aschehoug.
- ISBN:
- 978-82-03-15349-5Copied ISBN!
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