Margaret Atwood Additional Author mixed material bibliography Vintage 1996

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324 The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel, a work of science fiction or speculative fiction,written by Canadian author Margaret Atwood and first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1985. Set in the near future, in a totalitarian Christian theocracy which has overthrown the United States government, The Handmaid's Tale explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain agency. The novel's title was inspired by Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, which is a series of connected stories ('The Merchant's Tale', 'The Parson's Tale', etc.). Australia 99740915 C2O library Online catalog (BETA) F ATW Han 5118 C2O library & collabtive (Philosophy & Psychology) 5000 handmaids-tale11.jpg 4997 2015-01-02 09:50:52 2015-01-02 09:50:52 machine generated