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An edition of The Handmaid's Tale (1985)

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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 Pieixoto

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Рассказ служанки
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The Handmaid's Tale
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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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The Handmaid's Tale
1986, Jonathan Cape
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Published in
Moskva
Series
Bella donna
Other Titles
Rasskaz sluzhanki
Copyright Date
2006
Translation Of
Handmaid's Tale
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English

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PR9199.3.A8 H3617 2006

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Hardcover
Pagination
414 pages
Number of pages
414

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Open Library
OL32774599M
Internet Archive
rasskazsluzhanki0000atwo
ISBN 10
5699183760
ISBN 13
9785699183760
OCLC/WorldCat
76786267
Goodreads
59993447

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