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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- BNF ID:
- 12398637r
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Der Report der Magd
pocket book
Published Jan. 16, 2020
- ISBN:
- 978-3-492-30327-9Copied ISBN!
Het verhaal van de dienstmaagd
329 pages
Dutch language
Published Nov. 6, 1987 by B. Bakker.
- ISBN:
- 978-90-351-0372-6Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 16979628
El cuento de la criada
Paperback
Spanish language
Published by Editorial Seix Barral.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-322-0563-7Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
English language
Published Feb. 6, 1990 by Fawcett Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-449-44829-8Copied ISBN!
El cuento de la criada
382 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 6, 2001 by Ediciones B.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-666-0183-2Copied ISBN!
HANDMAID?'s TALE (DUMPBIN 36)
English language
Published Nov. 6, 1987 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-86068-921-8Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
308 pages
Published Feb. 1, 1993 by Heinemann Educational Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-435-12409-0Copied ISBN!
El cuento de la criada
416 pages
Spanish language
Published Nov. 6, 2019 by Salamandra.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-9838-907-4Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale Deluxe Edition
flexibound, 320 pages
Published Oct. 15, 2019 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-358-34629-6Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
English language
Published Sept. 17, 2023 by HarperCollins Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-06-334762-5Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
English language
Published Sept. 17, 2009 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4088-0295-3Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
English language
Published Sept. 17, 2016 by Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4735-4696-7Copied ISBN!
Handmaid's Tale
English language
Published Nov. 6, 1986 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-299-88599-8Copied ISBN!
Tjenerindens fortælling
310 pages
Danish language
Published Nov. 6, 1990 by Lindhardt og Ringhof.
- ISBN:
- 978-87-7560-939-0Copied ISBN!
The Handmaid's Tale
audio cassette
Published by Chivers Audio Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7451-6808-1Copied ISBN!
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