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Margaret Atwood

    November 18, 1939

    Margaret Atwood is celebrated for her incisive and thought-provoking works that delve into themes of gender, power, and the future of humanity. Her prose, often set in dystopian landscapes, showcases a keen observational eye and a distinctive voice that compels readers to reflect on contemporary society. Through her narratives, Atwood challenges social norms and explores profound ethical questions with masterful precision. Her literary legacy lies in her ability to capture the unsettling aspects of the human condition while still offering glimmers of hope.

    Margaret Atwood
    Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986
    The Handmaid's Tale (Graphic Novel)
    The Hand Maid´s Tale. The Graphic Novel
    Stone Matress. Nine wicked tales
    Maddaddam Trilogy, 3 Vols.
    The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Box Set
    • 2024

      Paper Boat

      New and Selected Poems 1961-2023

      • 624 pages
      • 22 hours of reading

      Margaret Atwood's collection showcases her evolution as a poet over six decades, featuring vital poems that capture the essence of living in a complex world. The work includes a diverse range of characters, from mythological figures to everyday people, each exploring profound themes of life, death, and the human experience. Atwood's unique blend of reality and fantasy invites readers to reflect on their own joys, sorrows, desires, and fears, solidifying her status as a pivotal figure in contemporary literature.

      Paper Boat
    • 2024

      Fourteen Days

      • 374 pages
      • 14 hours of reading
      3.2(6778)Add rating

      A novel written by more than twenty-five major literary voices follows the tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan during the COVID-19 shutdown, as they gather on the roof, share stories, and become real neighbors.

      Fourteen Days
    • 2024

      In collaboration with the Financial Times: powerful, urgent reflections on the value of democracy from eleven women writers and thought-leaders

      Democracy
    • 2023

      Houghton Mifflin now proudly publishes Selected Poems II, a volume of selections from Atwood's poetry of the last ten years. Underlying oppression and injustice, we hear the music of compassion and fellowship.

      Selected Poems II: 1976 - 1986
    • 2023

      A dazzling collection of fifteen stories from Margaret Atwood, the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments Margaret Atwood is celebrated as one of the most gifted storytellers in the world. These stories explore the full warp and weft of experience, from two best friends disagreeing about their shared past, to the right way to stop someone from choking; from a daughter determining if her mother really is a witch, to what to do with inherited relics such as World War II parade swords. They feature beloved cats, a confused snail, Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, philosopher-astronomer-mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria, a cabal of elderly female academics, and an alien tasked with retelling human fairy tales. At the heart of the collection is a stunning sequence that follows a married couple as they travel the road together, the moments big and small that make up a long life of love -- and what comes after. The glorious range of Atwood's creativity and humanity is on full beam in these tales, which by turns delight, illuminate and quietly devastate.

      Old Babes in the Wood : Stories
    • 2023

      A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers. 'Wonderful ... all killer, no filler' Red Magazine 'Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring' Daily Mirror 'Where power and feminist rage meet' Stylist DRAGON. TYGRESS. SHE-DEVIL. HUSSY. SIREN. WENCH. HARRIDAN. MUCKRAKER. SPITFIRE. VITUPERATOR. CHURAIL. TERMAGANT. FURY. WARRIOR. VIRAGO. For centuries past, and all across the world, there are words that have defined and decried us. Words that raise our hackles, fire up our blood; words that tell a story. In this blazing cauldron of a book, fifteen bestselling, award-winning writers have taken up their pens and reclaimed these words, creating an entertaining and irresistible collection of feminist tales for our time.

      Furies
    • 2023

      A dazzling collection of short stories from the internationally acclaimed, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect. The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; “Impatient Griselda” explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and “My Evil Mother” touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love—and what comes after. Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection Stone Mattress, Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate.

      Old Babes in the Wood
    • 2022
    • 2022

      Burning questions

      • 448 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      4.1(1834)Add rating

      From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays -- funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient -- which seek answers to Burning Questions such as- Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating? How can we live on our planet? Is it true? And is it fair? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In over fifty pieces Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at the world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer- only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better guide to the many and varied mysteries of our universe.

      Burning questions
    • 2022

      Innigst / Dearly

      Gedichte eines Lebens / Poems of a Lifetime | Zweisprachige Ausgabe Platz 3 SWR-Bestenliste 01/23

      »Lasst uns alle hoffen.« - Die Gedichte eines Lebens Mit »Dearly« veröffentlicht Margaret Atwood nach zehn Jahren erstmals wieder einen Lyrikband. Es geht darin um all das, womit sie sich, berühmtermaßen, auseinandersetzt: ob hinreißend genaue Naturbeschreibungen oder witzige Begegnungen mit Außerirdischen, ob drängende politische Fragen oder Mythen und Legenden. Klug, dabei oft verspielt sprechen die Gedichte von Abwesenheit, Altern und Rückschau, aber auch von Neubeginn und Glück. »Dearly« ist Atwood pur, voller Einsichten, Empathie und Humor. »Lyrik handelt vom Kern der menschlichen Existenz: Leben, Tode, Erneuerung, Wandel; in aller Fairness und Unfairness, in aller Ungerechtigkeit und – manchmal – Gerechtigkeit.« Margaret Atwood Ins Deutsche übertragen von Büchner-Preisträger Jan Wagner

      Innigst / Dearly