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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author, poet, and literary critic known for her works of fiction that often explore themes of gender, identity, and power. Born in Ottawa in 1939, she has received numerous awards, including the Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Award.
Known for: The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments
Books by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel set in the near-future Republic of Gilead, a totalitarian theocracy that has overthrown the United States government. The story follows Offred, a woman forced ...
The Testaments
Set fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale, this novel continues the story of Gilead through the perspectives of three women whose lives intersect in unexpected ways. It explores themes...
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The Birth of Gilead: A Nation Reborn in Chains
The Republic of Gilead rises from the ashes of a crumbling United States. Environmental catastrophe, plummeting birth rates, and moral panic become the justifying myths of a new order. The leaders who seize power claim to restore purity and divine law, but their true motives are control and survival...
From The Handmaid's Tale
Offred’s Life and the Machinery of Control
Offred’s daily existence as a Handmaid is defined by ritual, hypocrisy, and silence. She lives in the home of the Commander, a man she must serve not through love or labor but through her body. Serena Joy, his Wife, guards her role with bitterness and resentment. In this rigid household, every movem...
From The Handmaid's Tale
Aunt Lydia’s Secret Testimony: The Witness from Within
I begin with Lydia, because she embodies the paradox of survival under tyranny. We last saw her as an enforcer, handing down decrees to handmaids with iron and scripture. In this new account, she writes from within the heart of Ardua Hall, the fortress of the Aunts, addressing posterity through a cl...
From The Testaments
Agnes Jemima: The Daughter of Gilead
Agnes Jemima’s world is one of serenity and supervision. From her first pages, she believes herself pure and protected, her destiny mapped by scripture and male decree. Her upbringing represents Gilead’s success at indoctrination: the modest dresses, the sanctioned learning, the creeping fear that c...
From The Testaments
About Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author, poet, and literary critic known for her works of fiction that often explore themes of gender, identity, and power. Born in Ottawa in 1939, she has received numerous awards, including the Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Award. Her works include The Handma...
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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author, poet, and literary critic known for her works of fiction that often explore themes of gender, identity, and power. Born in Ottawa in 1939, she has received numerous awards, including the Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Award. Her works include The Handma...
Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author, poet, and literary critic known for her works of fiction that often explore themes of gender, identity, and power. Born in Ottawa in 1939, she has received numerous awards, including the Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Award. Her works include The Handmaid’s Tale, Oryx and Crake, and The Blind Assassin.
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Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author, poet, and literary critic known for her works of fiction that often explore themes of gender, identity, and power. Born in Ottawa in 1939, she has received numerous awards, including the Booker Prize and the Governor General’s Award.
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