Results for Margaret Atwood
| Product Image | Name | Category | Reviews | Rating |
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 | Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace | Fiction | 0 |    |
 | Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye | Fiction | 0 | |
 | Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing | Fiction | 0 | |
 | Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake | Fiction | 1 |  |
 | Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin | Fiction | 0 | |
 | Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (Contemporary Classics) | Fiction | 5 | |
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This view of a dystopian future got better and better.
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake starts with a young man called Jimmy who is living in a tree on the beach with some people who seem to be his followers. They think he's like a God and they don't question him or disagree with what he tells the ...
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Guest 21st Oct 2008
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This a literary classic, well written dystopian novel. I didn't like the fluid plotline and the un-omnipotent narrator. Overall, it is a great novel, hardly a challenging read because it is so engaging.
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Margaret Atwood has taken a step into literary creativity by writing a unique novel in a dystopian world. As an A2 student studying the novel in detail, I find I have a real interest in the nightmare world of 'Gilead', perhaps because it is so unexpected and suprising.
The real sense of Atwood's st ...
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The quality of mercy is not strained
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Offred narrates The Handmaid's Tale, switching from her past to the dystopian "present." In this future, all that feminism stands for has been abolished and the United States has been renamed. Offred isn't even her real name. It is her new name after she has been made a Handmaid for a Commander to b ...
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paints 12th Aug 2005
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I am studying A handsmaid's Tale at A Level. After reading the book twice I have found it very hard to understand why the book has gained such widespread acclaim. I found the plot too unrealistic to be threatening or thought provoking and the characters very hard to empathise with. Although I unders ...
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Margaret Atwood
Planning for the fall launch of The Year of the Flood and helping to create the book?s interactive website which will launch in mid-August. Twenty of the launch events will be staged readings,
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Margaret Atwood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret Eleanor Atwood , CC, O.Ont, FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian author, poet, critic, feminist and social campaigner. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias award...
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Brenda Blethyn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brenda Blethyn OBE (born 20 February 1946) is an English actress and author. Blethyn began her career on stage as a member of the National Theatre company, and made her first television appearance in 1980. Following her big screen debut with smaller supporting roles in films...
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1939. She is the daughter of a forest entomologist, and spent part of her early years in the bush of North Quebec.
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Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake is the disturbing new novel by Margaret Atwood. Read the first chapter, an interview with Margaret Atwood, and the author?s essay about the writing of Oryx and Crake.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's work has been regarded as a barometer of feminist thought. Her protagonists are often a kind of "everywoman" characters, or weaker members of society.
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Profile: Margaret Atwood | Books | The Guardian
Margaret Atwood grew up partly in Canada's woods, and decided to become a writer while at high school. ... Margaret Atwood's latest novel, Oryx and Crake, is not, she insists,
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Margaret Atwood | Books | guardian.co.uk
Profile, articles, reviews and links. ... The Red Shoes: Margaret Atwood Starting Out by Rosemary Sullivan is an intelligently researched, arm's length view of the author's early life.
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Gifts of Speech - Margaret Atwood
Spotty-Handed Villainesses: Problems Of Female Bad Behaviour ; In The Creation Of Literature ... ; by Margaret Atwood; Canadian Author ... From a speech given in various versions, here and there, in 1994.
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Margaret Atwood - Poetry Archive
Margaret Atwood's page on the Poetry Archive ... Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) is familiar to readers all over the world as the author of some of the finest and most influential fiction of the last
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