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The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a strongly patriarchal, totalitarian theonomic state, known as the Republic of Gilead, which has overthrown the United States government. The central character and narrator is a woman named Offred, one of the group known as "handmaids", who are forcibly assigned to produce children for the "commanders" — the ruling class of men in Gilead.
The novel explores themes of subjugated women in a patriarchal society, loss of female agency and individuality, and the various means by which they resist and attempt to gain individuality and independence.
The Handmaid's Tale won the 1985 Governor General's Award and the first Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1987; it was also nominated for the 1986 Nebula Award, the 1986 Booker Prize, and the 1987 Prometheus Award.
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Margaret Atwood (1939-), Offred, Commanders, Rachel, Bilhah, Aunts, Handmaids, Marthas, Econowives, Moira, Serena Joy, Ofglen, Nick, Eyes of God, Luke, Professor PieixotoEdition | Availability |
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2022, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Cuento de la Criada / the Handmaid's Tale
2021, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (USA) LLC
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2021, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial (USA) LLC, Salamandra Bolsillo
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La servante écarlate - Nouvelle traduction
Jan 14, 2021, ROBERT LAFFONT
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La servante écarlate
Jan 14, 2021, Robert Laffont
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Oct 15, 2019, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Il racconto dell'ancella
2019, Ponte alle grazie, Bollati Boringhieri
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Cuento de la Criada / the Handmaid's Tale - Edicion Especial
2019, Salamandra Black, Salamandra
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2017, Anchor Books
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2017, Shanghai Translation Publishing House, Shang Hai Yi Wen Chu Ban She
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2017, Vintage
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The Handmaid's Tale
2017, Large Print Press
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2017, Emblem McClelland & Stewart
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2017-07, Pavillons Poche/Robert Laffont
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The Handmaid's Tale
2017, Anchor Books
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The Handmaid's Tale
2017, Thorndike Press
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2017, Anchor Books
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O Conto da Aia
2017, Rocco
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The Handmaid's Tale
2016, Vintage
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2016?, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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2014, Emblem McClelland & Stewart
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The Handmaid's Tale
2010, Vintage Books
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The Handmaid's Tale
/2009, Vintage Books
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The Handmaid's Tale
September 19, 2006, McClelland & Stewart
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The Handmaid's Tale
October 17, 2006, Everyman's Library
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The Handmaid's Tale
2006, Everyman's Library
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The Handmaid's Tale
October 5, 2004, BTC Audiobooks
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Sinyŏ iyagi The handmaid's tale
2002, Hwanggŭm Kaji
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The Handmaid's Tale
February 2002, Recorded Books
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Shi nu de gu shi =: The handmaid's tale
2001, Yi lin chu ban she
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La Servante Ecarlate
December 31, 1998, Editions 84
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The Handmaid's Tale
1998-04, Anchor Books
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The Handmaid's Tale
1995?, Turtleback Books
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0808598295 9780808598299
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The Handmaid's Tale
1993?, Fawcett Crest
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Opowieść podręcznej
1992, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy
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- Wyd. 1.
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The Handmaid's Tale
1991 12, Fawcett Crest
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The Handmaid's Tale
1990, Virago Press
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The Handmaid's Tale
1987-02, Fawcett Crest
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- 1st Ballantine Books edition
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HANDMAID?'s TALE (COUNTERPACK
1987, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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HANDMAID?'s TALE (DUMPBIN 36)
1987, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The Handmaid's Tale
1986, Houghton Mifflin Company
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in English
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The Handmaid's Tale
1986, Houghton Mifflin Company
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The Handmaid's Tale
1986, Houghton Mifflin Company
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Handmaid's Tale
1986, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
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The Handmaid's Tale
1985, McClelland & Stewart, McClelland and Stewart
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El cuento de la criada
Publish date unknown, Editorial Seix Barral
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El cuento de la criada
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The Handmaid's Tale
Publish date unknown, Chivers Audio Books
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