Penelopiad (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Penelopiad (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

A fresh take on what follows Homer's The Odyssey by the international best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood.Penelope. Immortalised in legend and myth as the devoted wife of the glorious Odysseus, silently weaving and unpicking and weaving again as she waits for her husband's

Penelopiad (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback)

Margaret Atwood's acclaimed stage adaptation of Homer. As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she

Payback - Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Blind Assassin (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

* Atwood's Booker prize-winning novel reissued with a striking new jacket along with other titles from Margaret Atwood's

Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback)

Oryx And Crake (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his

Tent (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Punctuated with illustrations, this book presents a collection of short fiction stories from Margaret

Strange Things - The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Margaret Atwood's superb exploration of stories and storytelling, myths and their reinventions, fiction and fact, the weirdness of nature, and the strangeness of the Canadian

The Handmaid's Tale (Movie Tie-In) (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback)

#1 New York Times bestseller - Includes an introduction by Margaret Atwood. An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from 'the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction' (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. Look for The Testaments, the

Testaments - The Booker prize-winning sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 'The Testaments is Atwood at her best . . . To read this book is to feel the world turning' Anne Enright The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the

Butterfly Girl (Denfeld Rene)(Paperback / softback)

'Heartbreaking, finger-gnawing, and yet ultimately hopeful' Margaret Atwood, via TwitterNaomi Cottle's sister went missing 20 years ago. Could there be a link to the street children disappearing in a nearby town? And is her sister still

Alias Grace (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

By the author of The Handmaid's TaleNow a major NETFLIX series Sometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic

Eating Fire - Selected Poetry 1965-1995 (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

The evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates a major literary talent. Through bus trips and postcards, wilderness and trivia, she reflects the passion and energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft and the world. In this volume, two previous selections, Poems 1965-1975 and Poems

The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood (Howells Coral Ann)(Paperback)

The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood provides substantial reconceptualization of Atwood's writing in multiple genres that has spanned six decades, with particular focus on developments

Short History Of Progress (Wright Ronald)(Paperback / softback)

Inspiring a documentary featuring Margaret Atwood, Stephen Hawking and Jane Goodall, A Short History of Progress examines the downside of human

Adapting Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale and Beyond (Wells-Lassagne Shannon)(Paperback)

This book engages with Margaret Atwood's work and its adaptations. Atwood has long been appreciated for her ardent defence of Canadian authors and her genre-bending fiction, essays, and poetry. However, a lesser-studied aspect of her work is Atwood's role both as adaptor and as source for

Penelopiáda - Margaret Attwoodová

Nejvýznamnější současná kanadská spisovatelka převypráví svoji verzi Homérova mýtu o příslovečně věrné manželce Odyssea Penelopě, která na svého muže čekala dvacet let. Čerpala i z ústní a místní tradice a soustředila se na vyprávění o Penelopiných rodičích,

Cat's Eye (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias GraceElaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood - unbearable betrayals and cruelties - surface relentlessly, forcing her to confront the spectre of Cordelia, once her best friend and

MaddAddam (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Toby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories. Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one. Listening hard is young Blackbeard, one of the innocent Crakers, the species designed to replace

Edible Woman (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

She lays her head gently on the shoulder of her serious fiancee and quietly awaits marriage. But she didn't count on an inner rebellion that would rock her stable routine, and her digestion. Marriage a la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't

Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford - her assigned name, Offred, means `of Fred'. She has only one function: to breed. If Offred refuses to enter

Brave New World - Special 3D Edition (Huxley Aldous)(Paperback / softback)

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY MARGARET ATWOOD AND DAVID BRADSHAWFar in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal

Handmaid's Tale (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on

Curious Pursuits - Occasional Writing (Atwood Margaret)(Paperback / softback)

Collected essays and journalism from the bestselling author of The Blind Assassin and Oryx and Crake. First