Margaret Atwood

El conte de la criada és una novel·la de ciència-ficció amb elements distòpics i feministes, de l'autora canadenca Margaret Atwood, publicada originalment el 1985. La novel·la explora com se'n surten en el futur les dones subjugades en un règim totalitari i pseudo-teocràtic que governa la República de Gilead, el que …

The Robber Bride és una novel·la de l'escriptora canadenca Margaret Atwood. Va ser publicada originalment el 1993.

Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the foreword, I’ve chosen to give the telling of the story to Penelope and to the twelve hanged maids. The maids form a chanting …

Surfacing is the second published novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 1972. It has been called a companion novel to Atwood's collection of poems, Power Politics, which was written the previous year and deals with complementary issues. The novel, grappling with …

The Edible Woman is a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance. It is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world starts to slip out of focus. Following her engagement, Marian feels her body and her self are becoming separated. As Marian …

Lady Oracle és una novel·la de l'autora canadenca Margaret Atwood, que va ser publicada originalment el 1976. És una paròdia sobre els contes de fades i les novel·les d’amor. La protagonista és una escriptora de novel·la romàntica que conta la seua vida a través de flashbacks. S'hi intercalen escenes de la infància …

Life Before Man és una novel·la de l'escriptora canadenca Margaret Atwood. Va ser publicada originalment el 1979. És més tradicional que els seus llibres de ficció anteriors, i se centra en una sèrie de triangles amorosos. Nate i Elisabeth són un matrimoni infeliç, i ambdós tenen aventures extramatrimonials. Lesje és …

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing is a non-fiction work by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Cambridge University Press first published it in 2002. Atwood edited six lectures she gave at the 2000 Empson Lectures at the University of Cambridge into a non-fiction work on writing. In her introduction, she …

Dancing Girls is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, originally published in 1977 by McClelland & Stewart, Toronto. It was the winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction and the award of The Periodical Distributors of Canada for Short Fiction. The collection’s fourteen stories …

Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt -- a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the collapse of a system of interlocking debts. Atwood proposes that debt is like air -- something we take for granted until things go …