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Offers a collection of poetry.

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This is an inventive picture book by Booker Prize-winning author, Margaret Atwood.

By the author of The Handmaid's TaleSoon to be a major NETFLIX seriesSometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.'Brilliant... Atw...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's TaleOne of Margaret Atwood's most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends. Roz, Charis, and Tony-university classmates decades ago-were reunited at Zenia's funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever si...

A decade and a half has passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of 16, for the cold-blooded murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/lover Nancy Montgomery. Her alleged accomplice, James McDermot, was hanged in 1843. Dr Simon Jordan attempts to uncover the truth.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her novels include Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin and the MaddAddam trilogy. Her 1985 classic, The Handmaid's Tale, went back into the bestseller charts with the election of Donald Trump, when the Handmaids became a symbol of resistance against the disempowerment of women, and with the 2017 release of the award-winning C...

The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by fundamentalists who use militarized oppression to return to traditional values'. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred is forced into sexual servitude.

»Verna hatte anfänglich nicht vorgehabt, jemanden zu töten.« Mit diesem fulminanten ersten Satz beginnt die titelgebende Erzählung und sofort befindet man sich im Atwood-Kosmos, sofort wird man hineingezogen in eine Geschichte, die hintergründig, spannend und unglaublich komisch zugleich ist. Mordende alte Damen, Hochstapler oder ein gefriergetrockneter Bräutigam - Margaret Atwoods Fabulierlust ist grenzenlos. Scharfsinnig und voller Wagemut s...

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Before The Testaments, there was The Handmaid's Tale: an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from ', the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction' (New York Times).The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its image and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has r...

This cycle of poems is perhaps the most memorable evocation in modern Canadian literature of the myth of the wilderness, the immigrant experience, and the alienating and schizophrenic effects of the colonial mentality. Since it was first published in 1970 it has not only acquired the stature of a classic but, reprinted many times, become the best-known extended work in Canadian poetry. Susanna Moodie (1805-85) emigrated from England in 1832 to...

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Undici racconti: un album di fotografie, sessant'anni di una famiglia canadese, quasi un romanzo. Per ogni racconto, un momento preciso nella vita della protagonista, una serie di istantanee limpide che disegnano il corso di una vita e delle vite che con essa si intrecciano: quelle di genitori, parenti, figli, amici e nemici, bambini, animali, professori. Il tempo passa, dagli anni Trenta arriviamo fino ai giorni nostri, e anche gli scenari ca...

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have seen fit to assume, what roles they have chosen to play. 'This is a streetwise, erudite, suggestive e...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale In this extraordinary collection, Margaret Atwood gives us nine unforgettable tales that reveal the grotesque, delightfully wicked facets of humanity. "Alphinland, " the first of three loosely linked tales, introduces us to a fantasy writer who is guided through a stormy winter evening by the voice of her late husband. In "Lusus Naturae, " a young woman, monstrously transform...