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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The Handmaid's Tale
audio cassette
English language
Published March 6, 2004 by BBC Radio.
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- 978-0-563-52458-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 54816052
La servante écarlate
French language
Published 2017 by Éditions Robert Laffont.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-221-20333-0Copied ISBN!
Il racconto dell'Ancella
Hardcover
Published May 14, 1988 by Arnoldo Mondadori.
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- 978-88-04-28800-8Copied ISBN!
Galaad 2195
301 pages
Romanian language
Published Nov. 6, 1995 by Editurii Univers.
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- 978-973-34-0325-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 222298675
Il racconto dell'ancella
Paperback
Published June 1, 2017 by Ponte alle Grazie.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-6833-742-1Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
336 pages
English language
Published June 23, 2012 by Penguin Random House.
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- 978-1-4464-8547-7Copied ISBN!
Príbeh služobníčky
352 pages
Slovak language
Published Nov. 6, 2001 by Epos.
- ISBN:
- 978-80-88977-34-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 51581664
The Handmaid's Tale
audio cd
English language
Published March 6, 2004 by BBC Radio.
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- 978-0-563-52463-2Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
Paperback
Published March 22, 1989 by Klett Sprachen GmbH.
- ISBN:
- 978-3-12-577692-0Copied ISBN!
O CONTO DA AIA edicao capa dura
Hardcover
Published Nov. 18, 2019
- ISBN:
- 978-65-5532-094-7Copied ISBN!
Рассказ Служанки
378 pages
Russian language
Published Nov. 6, 2016 by Izdatelʹstvo "Ė".
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- 978-5-699-90956-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 960850886
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