简介:The Handmaid's Tale《使女的故事》是加拿大作者Margaret Atwood在1985年出版的反乌托邦小说。 故事发生在未来的New England,美国因为战乱而被瓦解,极权主义基督教重建主义取而代之,多数女性地位低落沦为杂役,少数仍具备生育能力的则被选为“侍女”成为权贵的生产工具。这部小说探讨了女性为获取独立而进行的斗争。
A must-have for fans of The Handmaid's Tale and its critically acclaimed Hulu TV adaptation, we have adorned the covers with a hand-drawn portrait of a woman and a bold red slash – a direct reference to the powerful symbolism of color throughout Atwood's writing, notably in her ...
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[00:03.60]The Handmaid's Tale was released in 2019. [00:07.28]The book is widely considered a classic work [00:11.08]about the oppression of women. [00:13.12]An illustrated version of the book [00:16.04]would help...
My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood By Inderpreet on Wednesday, June 12, 2024 A master author with a bewitching title, My Evil Mother is a book that will set you thinking. It’s a small book, more of a short story, but with a deep essence and meaning. I picked it for the author, ...
Nearly all the pieces were good, bordering on great. It shouldn’t be a surprise to me that someone whose fiction I have been reading for some 40, years (yes, I was reading Atwood before The Handmaid’s Tale was first published and when it was published, I bought and read it within ...
Dillon’s only supporter is the headmistress, who believes Dillon is destined for Big things and she does everything she can to fend off the rich and powerful families who aren’t happy to have a Dhampire staying with, and leading, their children. ...
three thirsty women who’ve lost everything to men team up to solve the title’s puzzle and see off a growing number of salacious frogs. Some lines hint at a darkness that draw to mind Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale with the women taking turns to have spins on the chair “to...
A Shirley Jackson novella, perhaps some engrossing and otherworldly science fiction like Frank Herbert’s Dune, maybe even an unsettling work like Margaret Atwood’sThe Handmaid’s Tale: all of these will take on a different character with a soundtrack like this. ...
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