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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La servante écarlate
345 pages
French language
Published July 6, 2006 by J'ai Lu.
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- 978-2-290-34710-2Copied ISBN!
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- 1286846
Il racconto dell'ancella
400 pages
Italian language
Published Jan. 1, 2019 by Ponte alle grazie, Bollati Boringhieri.
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- 978-88-3331-225-5Copied ISBN!
La servante écarlate
Paperback, 523 pages
French language
Published Nov. 6, 2017 by Pavillons Poche.
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- 978-2-221-20333-0Copied ISBN!
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Рассказ служанки
Hardcover, 414 pages
Russian language
Published Nov. 6, 2006 by "ĖKSMO".
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- 978-5-699-18376-0Copied ISBN!
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La servante écarlate
576 pages
French language
Published Jan. 14, 2021 by Éditions Robert Laffont.
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- 978-2-221-24994-9Copied ISBN!
El cuento de la criada / The Handmaid's Tale
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published July 21, 2020 by Salamandra Graphic.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-16131-53-2Copied ISBN!
La Servante écarlate
French language
Published by Éditions Robert Laffont.
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- 978-2-221-18908-5Copied ISBN!
La servante écarlate
French language
Published July 6, 2019 by Éditions Robert Laffont.
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- 978-2-221-24602-3Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 312 pages
Published Aug. 27, 1996 by Ballantine Books.
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- 978-0-449-91153-2Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
Paperback, 320 pages
Published Aug. 1, 2011 by Vintage Books.
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- 978-0-09-956314-3Copied ISBN!
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