Tác giả: Margaret Atwood

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 he …

Margaret Atwood returns with a shrewd, funny, and insightful retelling of the myth of Odysseus from the point of view of Penelope. Describing her own remarkable vision, the author writes in the forew …

The best-selling author of Why the West Rules—for Now examines the evolution and future of human values Most people in the world today think democracy and gender equality are good, and that violence …

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and recipient of the Order of Ontario, painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and author, Charles Pachter is one …

In this expanded version of an inspiring speech delivered in December 2009, David Suzuki reflects on how we got where we are today and presents his vision for a better future. In his living memory, S …

Als der Journalist Caspar Shaller Margaret Atwood im Herbst 2018 in Toronto trifft, ist er erstaunt, wie klein »die kanadische Königin der Literatur« (Freundin) ist und wie groß ihre Sonnen- brille. …

Als Kind wegen ihres unglaublichen Übergewichts gehänselt und von der eigenen Mutter abgelehnt, findet Joan Foster in ihrer ebenso dicken wie skurrilen Tante Lou eine Verbündete. Als diese stirbt, hi …

Die provozierende Vision eines totalitären Staats, in dem Frauen keine Rechte haben: Die Magd Desfred besitzt etwas, was ihr alle Machthaber, Wächter und Spione nicht nehmen können, nämlich ihre Hoff …

»Katzenauge«, einer der erfolgreichsten Romane von Margaret Atwood, erzählt von der schillernden Gefühlswelt kleiner Mädchen. Die erwachsene Elaine erinnert sich an ihre Freundschaft mit Cordelia, di …

In zehn Geschichten erzählt Margaret Atwood von Frauen am Wendepunkt ihres Lebens. Auf hochintelligente Weise arbeitet Margaret Atwood dabei mit der Zeit: Dinge, die im unmittelbaren Erleben eindeuti …

Wie die filigranen Formationen von Salzkristallen in einem chemischen Experiment erscheinen bei Margaret Atwood die irritierenden und verwirrenden Familienverhältnisse und Konflikte. In dreizehn Gesc …

Hamlets Mutter, eine reinkarnierte Fledermaus, ein menschenerforschender Falter oder eine männerbastelnde Heimwerkerin – in den 27 kurzen Texten dieses Bandes beweist Margaret Atwood einmal mehr, das …

Toronto, 1843: Das junge Dienstmädchen Grace wird mit sechzehn des Doppelmordes an ihren Arbeitgebern schuldig gesprochen. In letzter Sekunde wandelt das Gericht ihr Todesurteil in eine lebenslange G …

Kanada, in den 1930er Jahren: Laura, fünfzehnjährige Tochter eines Fabrikanten, verfällt einem Gewerkschaftsagitator. Doch auch für ihre Schwester Iris verkörpert er das romantische Ideal eines Manne …

Rache ist zeitlos: Booker-Preisträgerin Margaret Atwoods Verneigung vor dem großen Bühnenmagier William Shakespeare. Felix ist ein begnadeter Theatermacher, ein Star. Seine Inszenierungen sind heraus …

Es ist das Jahr der »wasserlosen« Flut: Eine tödliche Pandemie ist über die Menschheit hereingebrochen. Hoch über den Dächern der Stadt leben die wenigen Überlebenden, die Gottesgärtner, bei denen di …

Die wasserlose Flut, eine Pandemie ungeheuren Ausmaßes, ist über die Erde hinweggegangen und hat die Menschheit ausgelöscht. Bis auf einige wenige Überlebende, die im Lehmhaus eines verwahrlosten Par …

Crake und Jimmy sind Freunde, und sie lieben dieselbe Frau: die rätselhafte Oryx. Sie leben in einer von Klimakatastrophen bedrohten Welt in einer gar nicht so fernen Zukunft. Crake, ein Genie geneti …

In ihrem Roman Moralische Unordnung führt uns Margaret Atwood mitten hinein in ihr eigenes Leben: Sie erzählt die Geschichte von Nell, schildert deren kluge, lebenstüchtige, aber kühle Mutter, den Va …

Margaret Atwood erklärt uns mit faszinierender Klarheit, wie maßgeblich das Konzept der Schuld – im ökonomischen und im moralischen Sinn – unser Denken und Verhalten seit Anbeginn der menschlichen Ku …

Eine Katze kommt in den Himmel, wenn auch gänzlich gegen ihren Willen, denn sie hat Höhenangst. Gott sitzt dort mit pelzigen Klauen in einem Baum und spricht freundlich mit ihr – allerdings etwas trä …

»Verna hatte anfänglich nicht vorgehabt, jemanden zu töten.« Mit diesem fulminanten ersten Satz beginnt die titelgebende Erzählung und sofort befindet man sich im Atwood-Kosmos, sofort wird man hinei …

Wer wohnt schon gern in seinem Auto? Zumal, wenn marodierende Banden die Stadt beherrschen? Stan und Charmaine, ein nettes, normales Paar, durch die Wirtschaftskrise in Not geraten, werden immer verz …

»Immer wenn ich gerade beschlossen habe, weniger zu schreiben und stattdessen etwas für meine Gesundheit zu tun – vielleicht Eistanz oder so –, ruft mich garantiert irgendein glattzüngiger Verleger a …

»Und so steige ich hinauf, in die Dunkelheit dort drinnen oder ins Licht.« – Als am Ende vom »Report der Magd« die Tür des Lieferwagens und damit auch die Tür von Desfreds »Report« zuschlug, blieb ih …

Ich schreibe, also bin ich Schriftstellerin: Wenn es so einfach wäre, gäbe es die Geschichten in dieser Sammlung nicht. Ist Dichten das große Glück, ein großer Kraftakt – oder beides? Wie entstehen I …

Neil Gaiman’sperennial favorite, The Graveyard Book, has sold more than one million copies and is the only novel to win both the Newbery Medal and the Carnegie Medal.Bod is an unusual boy who inhabit …

The internationally acclaimed Myths series brings together some of the finest writers of our time to provide a contemporary take on some of our most enduring stories. Here, the timeless and universal …

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From the Booker Prizewinning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the Madd Addam Trilogy, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst ot …

A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize.Margaret Atwoods new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so r …

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From Booker Prizewinner and #1 national bestseller Margaret Atwood, The Madd Addam Trilogy is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find the …

For fans of the first two books and readers of Margaret Atwood’s fiction in general. Bringing together characters from Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood, this thrilling conclusion to Margaret …

By the author of THE HANDMAID’S TALE and ALIAS GRACEWhat is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and the …

BY THE AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID’S TALE, THE TESTAMENTS AND ALIAS GRACE’Dark and witty tales from the gleefully inventive Margaret Atwood. Witty verve, imaginative inventiveness and verbal sizzle vivify …

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments Charmaine sees an advertisement for a project called Positron that promises you a job, a place to live, a bed to sleep in – imagine how appeali …

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With the publication of the best-selling The Handmaids Tale in 1986, Margaret Atwoods place in North American letters was reconfirmed. Poet, short story writer, and novelist, she was acclaimed one of …

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace Elaine Risley, a painter, returns to Toronto to find herself overwhelmed by her past. Memories of childhood – unbearable betrayals and cruelties – …

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments A leathery bog-man transforms an old love affair; a sweet, gruesome gift is sent by the wife of an ex-lover; landscape paintings are haunted by …

A treasure trove of collected works from the legendary author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace Queen Gertrude gives Hamlet a piece of her mind. An ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a g …

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace Zenia is beautiful, smart and greedy, by turns manipulative and vulnerable, needy and ruthless; a man’s dream and a woman”s nightmare. She is als …

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale Now 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 fie …

Winner of the Man Booker Prize By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace Laura Chase’s older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eigh …

By the author of THE HANDMAID’S TALE and ALIAS GRACEPigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped i …

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace The sun brightens in the east, reddening the blue-grey haze that marks the distant ocean. The vultures roosting on the hydro poles fan out their w …

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace Curious Pursuits is a collection of personal essays, book reviews and articles from the fierce, ingenious mind of Margaret Atwood, ranging from 19 …

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale and Alias Grace 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 d …

Four of Margaret Atwood’s best novels, in one volume!In The Handmaid’s Tale, amulti-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This …

In Margaret Atwood’s stunning new collection of stories, her first since her #1 nationally bestselling 2006 collection, Moral Disorder, she returns to the here and now in this brilliant, new collecti …

A brilliant, ambitious, insightful inquiry into the art of writing from the legendary Margaret Atwood.What do we mean when we say that someone is a writer? Is he or she an entertainer? A high priest …

In the title story from her acclaimed collection Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood takes us to the farm.At first, for Nell and Tig, livestock would mean deadstock. Newly-arrived city slickers shouldn’t …

In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of The Handmaid’s Tale: Margaret Atwood describes how she came to write her utopian, dystopian works. The word "utopia" comes from Thomas More’s book o …

At a time when speculative fiction seems less and less far-fetched, Margaret Atwood lends her distinctive voice and singular point of view to the genre in a series of essays that brilliantly illumina …

Imagining a world where citizens take turns as prisoners and jailers, the prophetic Margaret Atwood delivers a hilarious yet harrowing tale about liberty, power, and the irrepressibility of the human …

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Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt — a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the collapse of a …

The fifty essays in Second Words span the period from 1962 to 1980 and reveal Margaret Atwood’s views on feminism, Canadian literature, the creative process, nationalism, sexism, as well as critical …

Margaret Atwood’s Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever.These poems occupy all at …

The appearance of Margaret Atwood’s first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vu …

Long ago, when they were all a lot younger, Zenia stole a man from each of them. Then she died. Now shes come back. Or has she? Theres a lot more than one kind of ghost. Margaret Atwood revisits her …

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By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments and Alias Grace’One of the most important novels of the 20th century . . . utterly remarkable’ New York Times’I feel it will be different if I loo …

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments and Alias Grace The trick was to disappear without a trace, leaving behind me the shadow of a corpse, a shadow everyone would mistake for solid re …

By the author of The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments and Alias Grace’Clara’, she said, ‘do you think I’m normal?”I’d say you’re almost abnormally normal, if you know what I mean.’ Marian is determin …

‘A fascinating, freewheeling examination of ideas of debt, balance and revenge in history, society and literature – Atwood has again struck upon our most current anxieties’ The Times’A stimulating, l …

From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Talenow an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original seriesand Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.A powerfully and brilliantly c …

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Talenow an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original seriesand Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.Joan Foster is a bored wife, confused by …

From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Talenow an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original seriesand Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.Imprisoned by walls of their o …

From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Talenow an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original seriesand Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.Part detective novel, part psy …

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Chevalier of France’s Order of Arts and Letters, and recipient of the Order of Ontario, painter, printmaker, sculptor, designer, and author, Charles Pachter is one …

Provocative, startling, prophetic, and more relevant than ever, The Handmaid’s Tale has become a global phenomenon. Now, in this stunning graphic novel edition of Margaret Atwood’s modern classic, th …

Eighty-five stories by one of Canada’s greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan’s short fiction are collected here for the first time, while so …

Callaghan’s writing is wide ranging but often takes on the perspective of a marginalized individual’s view of the human experience. These tales are told in a variety of voices: street hustlers, pries …

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In her lengthy and fascinating introduction Margaret Atwood says Alice Munro is among the major writers of English fiction of our time. . . . Among writers themselves, her name is spoken in hushed to …

In this astonishing tour de force, Margaret Atwood takes the reader back in time and into the life and mind of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century. In 1843, at the …

By turns humorous and warm, stark and frightening, Bluebeard’s Egg infuses a Canada of the 1940s, ’50s and ’80s with glowing childhood memories, the harsh realities of parents growing old, and the ca …

Rennie Wilford is a freelance journalist who takes an assignment in the Caribbean in the hopes of recuperating from her recently shattered life. On the tiny island of St. Antoine, she tumbles into a …

Controversial painter Elaine Risley returns from Vancouver for a retrospective of her work. Here, in Toronto, the city of her youth, she confronts the submerged layers of her past her unconventional …

Dancing Girls is Margaret Atwoods highly praised first collection of short fiction. In it she explores the dark intricacies of the mind, the complexities of human relationships, and the clashes betwe …

An original and compelling work in which Margaret Atwood passes one womans bizarre life through the prism of her unique literary vision. The shy, awkward wife of a perpetual radical, Joan Foster is a …

Life Before Man vividly portrays three people in thrall to the tragicomedy some call love. Imprisoned by walls of their own construction, they are forced to make drastic choices after the rules have …

Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a young woman who returns to northern Quebec, to the remote island of her childhood, with her lover and two friends, to in …

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. These words are spoken by Iris Chase Griffen, married at eighteen to a wealthy industrialist but now poor and eighty-two. Iris …

Marian has a problem. A willing member of the consumer society in which she lives, she suddenly finds herself identifying with the things being consumed. She can cope with her tidy-minded fianc, Pete …

In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new …

This is the wise, unsettling, drastic story of three women whose lives share a common wound: Zenia, a woman they first met as university students in the sixties. Zenia is smart and beautiful, by turn …

An award-winning collection of ten stories that charts the complexities of modern life and explores the strange and secret places of the heart. The gruesome discoveries of an archaeological dig in Br …

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Margaret Atwoods Good Bones and Simple Murders (published originally as Murder in the Dark) are now available together in this beautiful one-volume collectors edition. This compilation is a concentra …

Atwood triumphs with these dazzling, personal stories in her first collection since Wilderness Tips.In these ten interrelated stories Atwood traces the course of a life and also the lives intertwined …

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A stunning lyrical achievement and Atwoods first collection of new poems in over a decade.The Door is Margaret Atwoods first book of poetry since the award-winning Morning in the Burned House (1995). …

A new collection of dazzling short fiction.One of the worlds most celebrated authors, Margaret Atwood has penned a collection of smart and entertaining fictional essays, in the genre of her popular b …

These beautifully crafted poemsby turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender and intimatecome together as Atwood’s most accomplished and versatile gathering of poems to date, setting foot on the m …

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The appearance of Margaret Atwood’s first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vu …

The revised text of "Frozen in Time" expands on the history of nineteenth century British Arctic exploration and specifically the Franklin expedition, placing it in the context of other exp …

The truth about what happened on Sir John Franklins ill-fated Arctic expedition of 184548 has been shrouded in mystery for 165 years. Carrying the best equipment that the science and technology, Fran …

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És l'any 1851, i la Grace Marks compleix condemna al penal de Kingston per l'assassinat d'en Thomas Kinnear i la Nancy Montgomery, l'amo i la governanta de la casa on servia. Deti …

Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume …

Now a Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. The Handmaid’s Tale is an instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (New Yor …

Celebrated as a major novelist throughout the English-speaking world, Atwood has also written eleven volumes of poetry. Houghton Mifflin is proud to have published SELECTED POEMS, 1965-1975, a volume …

** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon.Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Wat …

Discover this sharp, funny short story collection from the bestselling author of The Handmaid s Tale and The Testaments A man finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming paler, more silent and …

A clever and addictive thriller from the bestselling author of The Handmaid s Tale and The Testaments Rennie Wilford is a young journalist running from her life. When she takes an assignment to a Car …

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale, Dancing Girls and Other Stories showcases Margaret Atwood’s masterly skill for storytelling.Students, journalists, farmers, birdwatch …

Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death from the bestselling author of The Handmaid s Tale and The Testaments Elizabeth has just lost her latest love …

The ‘riotous, insanely readable’ (Observer) retelling of The Tempest from the 2019 Booker Prize-winning author of THE TESTAMENTS. Riotous, insanely readable and just the best fun…’Observer Felix is …

**THE NUMBER 1 BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE**In this electrifying sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood answers the question that has tantalised readers for decades: What happen …

Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced wi …

Although poetry is one of the oldest art forms and cinema one of the youngest, a symbiosis exists between the two – an interchange of metaphor, rhythm, point-of-view. No surprise, then, that so many …

Eighty-five stories by one of Canada’s greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan’s short fiction are collected here for the first time, while so …

Callaghan’s writing is wide ranging but often takes on the perspective of a marginalized individual’s view of the human experience. These tales are told in a variety of voices: street hustlers, pries …

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the …

“Atwood provides a window into her own early writing days . . . a treasure for readers interested in Canadian literature because this is where it all began.” —Prairie Fire Review of Books …

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 return.Now Penelope wanders th …

‘An almost perfect book’ MARGARET ATWOOD. Whenever I find myself thinking in a brooding way, I must simply turn it off and think of something else. God forbid that I should turn into an eccentric. Ra …

Wer Margaret Atwood kennenlernen will, muss ihre Gedichte lesen. Margaret Atwood ist eine der berühmtesten Romanautorinnen der Gegenwart; ihr »Report der Magd« ist fast schon ein Mythos. Aber wer meh …

Erstmals in deutscher Übersetzung – Margaret Atwoods fundierte, hochamüsante Literaturgeschichte Kanadas 1972 erschien »Survival« erstmals und sorgte für Stürme der Begeisterung wie der Empörung. Sei …

The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rule …

“Both a riveting novel on its own merits and an astonishing gloss on an earlier masterpiece.”—Margaret Atwood Bengt Ohlsson, one of Sweden’s most successful young writers, has responded to the classi …

Since 1984, Literary Arts has welcomed many of the world’s most renowned authors and storytellers to its stage. In celebration of their thirty-year anniversary, Tin House Books has collected highligh …

Two female writers and best friends bring to light the literary friendships of four iconic female authors. Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and H …

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Elaine, o pictoriță la mijlocul vieții, ajunge cu ocazia unei expoziții retrospective la Toronto, orașul unde a copilărit. Odată cu tablourile pe care le descrie, în mintea ei se deapănă scene de dem …

După cincizeci de ani, Iris Chase își amintește împrejurările misterioasei dispariții a Laurei. Viețile celor două surori își împletesc firele, iar episoadele erotice se întretaie cu destinul unui as …

These two companion novels tell the stories of Jack and Brenda Bowman during a rare time apart in their many years of marriage. In The Husband’s Story, Jack is at home coping with domestic crises and …

Widely regarded as a modern classic, The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman’s life; that of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman born in Canada in 1905. Beautifully written and deepl …

A celebration of love in its many guises, The Republic of Love recounts the heartfelt tale of two of life’s unlucky lovers: Fay, a folklorist whose passion for mermaids has kept her from focusing on …

Mary Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband brutally …

L’Offred viu a la República de Galaad, un règim totalitari i teocràtic basat en el control del cos femení per part del govern. En un futur no gaire llunyà assolat per una natalitat en declivi, les do …

Quinze anys després dels fets d”El conte de la Serventa’, el règim teocràtic de la República de Galaad, tot i haver entrat en decadència, s’aferra al poder. Les vides de tres dones radicalment difer …

‘A source of uncompromising elemental warmth’ Ali Smith By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts …

A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood In Dearly, Margaret Atwoods first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses the …

The first volume of the New York Times–bestselling author’s monumental and unprecedented history: “Consistently thought-provoking” (The New York Review of Books).   The internationally cele …

“Filled with fascinating detail . . . this second volume of French’s massive and valuable work is an example of scholarship and clear vision.” —Publishers Weekl …

From the New York Times–bestselling author: “A rare find: a page-turning, can’t-put-it-down history text.” —Library Journal   Writing about what she calls the &ldqu …

A Secret Sisterhood uncovers the hidden literary friendships of the world’s most respected female authors. Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, this book wi …

Compares the cultural productions of Canada and the US – literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks – providing a reassessment of Canadian Studies within a comparative framework. Since th …

“A remarkable piece of forensic deduction.”—Margaret Atwood  The internationally-bestselling account of the Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition, and the thrilling scientific investigation that s …

For centuries, cats have been worshipped, adored and mistrusted in equal measure. This beautiful gift book contains a selection of essays, stories and poems on cats, by writers from across the centur …

Die Drei drolligen Dramen kitzeln die Lachmuskeln. Sie führen in die Welt der aufregenden Abenteuer und der Alliteration, der gleichen Anfangslaute. Die drei Geschichten für kleine und große Kinder a …

Die Drei drolligen Dramen kitzeln die Lachmuskeln. Sie führen in die Welt der aufregenden Abenteuer und der Alliteration, der gleichen Anfangslaute. Die drei Geschichten für kleine und große Kinder a …

Nach dem Lyrik-Sammelband Die Füchsin soll dieses Buch Margaret Atwoods Erzählungen ins rechte Licht rücken. Ohne Zweifel sind ihre Stories ein wesentlicher Teil ihres Werks, ihr Sinn für knappe Poin …

The conclusion of the “remarkable” four-volume history by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Women’s Room (Publishers Weekly).   In the twentieth century, women became a force for chan …

Stories, essays, and interviews explore dystopias that may offer lessons for the present.As the recent success of Margaret Atwood’s novel-turned-television hit Handmaid’s Tale shows us, dystopia is m …

Adrift in a dinghy, Edward Prendick, the single survivor from the good ship Lady Vain, is rescued by a vessel carrying a profoundly unusual cargo – a menagerie of savage animals. Tended to recovery b …

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The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood 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 …

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Governor General’s Award 1966, dem wichtigsten Literaturpreis Kanadas Mit einem Nachwort von Margaret Atwood Rachel Camerons Leben ist bestimmt von ihrer Arbeit als Lehrerin und …

Atwood aims her constant curiosity and impish humour at our world and reports back to us on what she finds, in this frank, generous gift of a book.In it she seeks answers to Burning Questions such as …

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Penelope – die spartanische Prinzessin gilt als Sinnbild der treu liebenden Ehefrau und Mutter, die jahrzehntelang geduldig die Heimkehr des heldenhaften Ehemanns erwartet. So erzählt es die »Odyssee …

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 Naturbes …

Geschichten machen die Welt zu einem besseren Ort Packend, anrührend, voller Überraschungen – dieses einzigartige literarische Projekt versammelt viele der erfolgreichsten Autorinnen und Autoren alle …

Dorothy Parker lästert über Carson Mc Cullers und klagt über die vielen miesen Brotjobs zu Beginn ihrer Laufbahn, Elena Ferrante spricht über die Gedankensplitter, die am Anfang ihrer Texte stehen, u …

Dieses Buch lässt 13 hochkarätige und couragierte Frauen aus Afghanistan in Textbeiträgen und Interviews zu Wort kommen. Sie schreiben über berufliche und gesellschaftliche Errungenschaften als Progr …

Si Margaret Atwood cautiva al mundo con sus novelas, como ensayista sorprende aún más. Los textos de este libro son entusiastas, polifacéticos y eruditos. Aquí Atwood habla de su generación, de Toni …

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“Blaise is probably the greatest living Canadian writer most Canadians have never heard of.” —Quill & Quire “If you want to understand something about what life was like in the restless, peripatetic, …

L’Iris Chase, una dona de vuitanta-dos anys, viu sola i empobrida a Port Ticonderoga, antic feu de la seva família influent caiguda en desgràcia. A la vegada que s’enfronta a la senectut, l’Iris medi …

The new collection from the legendary Atwood is led by the story of 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 aft …

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A fun and fearless anthology of feminist tales, by sixteen bestselling, award-winning writers.’Wonderful . . . all killer, no filler’ Red Magazine’Dazzling stories, as inventive as they are inspiring …

The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell while he was writing1984, with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le Guin In a glass-enclosed city of perfectly st …

Finalist for the French-American Florence Gould Translation Prize A novel by the iconic Simone de Beauvoir of an intense and vivid girlhood friendship that, unpublished in her lifetime, displays &#82 …

The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists can drift into a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their …

In dieser lustigen, gelehrten, unendlich neugierigen und gespenstisch weitsichtigen Essaysammlung fragte die Kultur-Ikone Margaret Atwood: – Warum erzählen Menschen aller Kulturen überall Geschichten …

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“Farley and Claire is a love story, a biography, a Tale of Two Farleys, or perhaps three: the public one, the private one, and the secret one.”—Margaret Atwood The tumultuous, enduring love story bet …

“Atwood provides a window into her own early writing days . . . a treasure for readers interested in Canadian literature because this is where it all began.” —Prairie Fire Review of Books …

A chilling noir collection featuring fifteen crime and mystery tales and six poems from female authors.Joyce Carol Oates, a queen-pin of the noir genre, has brought her keen and discerning eye to the …

In The Edge of the Sea Rachel Carson introduces us to the ”strange and beautiful place” where the sea meets the land. She explores a tide pool, an inaccessible cave, and watches a lone crab on the …

The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only …

Under the Sea-Wind marks the beginnings of one of the most significant careers in nature writing. In it Rachel Carson celebrates the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural hab …

Neben zwei umwerfenden Storysequenzen aus dem Leben eines Paares – mit all den großen und kleinen Momenten, aus denen eine lange Liebe besteht – enthält dieser Band viele weitere Geschichten: Zwei be …

This is an exceptional moment for democracy. In the year of elections, read Margaret Atwood, Mary Beard, Lea Ypi, Elif Shafak and more on what democracy means – and why it matters. In 2024, nearly ha …

A splendid collection of short stories from the author of the New York Times bestselling novel The Handmaid’s Talethe inspiration behind the award-winning Hulu original series.Margaret Atwood brings …

‘Çünkü bu defa Tanrı ona bir koç göndermeyecek.’ İnsan eliyle gelen kıyametin ardından sağ kalan Toby, insansız dünyanın yeni sakinlerine, Fluryagillere kaosun ve kaostan önceki zamanların öyküsünü a …

‘Şimdi bir aynanın karanlığıdır baktığımız’ 19. yüzyıl Kanadası’nda İrlanda göçmeni, 16’lık hizmetçi Grace Marks. Patronunu ve metresini öldürmekle suçlanıyor. Bu vahşi cinayette suç ortağı James Mc …

DAMIZLIK KIZIN ÖYKÜSÜ DEVAM EDİYOR ‘HENÜZ BİTMEDİ. AMA BU BİR BAŞLANGIÇ.’ Damızlık Kızın Öyküsü’nde isyan var. Teyzeler, Damızlık Kızlar ve onların kızları, canları pahasına savaşıp Duvar’ı yıkarak t …

‘Tek kelimeyle, daha doğrusu üç kelimeyle: Anlamlı bir hayat.’ Tektip giysilerin, beton duvarların, şirketlerin kâr ve zarar tablolarının, seks robotlarının, reklam sloganlarının ortasında kalp sevme …

‘Belki kadınların üniversiteye gitmelerine izin verilmemeli; böylece sonradan, düşünen kafalar olarak hayatta neler kaçırdıklarını hissetmezler.’ Margaret Atwood’un 1969 tarihli ilk romanı, feminist …

With the profound maturity and exquisite eye for detail that never failed to capture readers of her prize-winning novels, Carol Shields dazzles with these remarkable stories. Generous, delightful, an …

William Shakespeare’in ölümünün 400. yılı dolayısıyla başlatılan ‘Shakespeare Yeniden’ serisi kapsamındaki Cadı Tohumu, Margaret Atwood’un, sanat-hayat ilişkisi; taklit ve yeniden yaratım; Shakespear …

ESTE É UM EPISÓDIO DA OBRA ‘CARTA PARA O MEU JOVEM EU’, DE JANE GRAHAM, QUE APRESENTAM CARTAS PARA MARIANNE FAITHFULL E MARGARET ATWOOD E SIR ROGER MOORE MAIS JOVENS. SE QUISER LER TODAS AS CARTAS LE …

Eigentlich hätte ihre Mutter eine Vorzeigemama sein können – aber deren gestärkte Hemdblusenkleider, Perlenketten und geblümte Schürzen täuschten niemand. Auch die sehr merkwürdigen, durchwegs giftig …

An extraordinary career-spanning collection from one of the most revered poets and storytellers of our age Tracing the legacy of Margaret Atwood a writer who has fundamentally shaped our contemporary …

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Ein schwüler Tag in Toronto bei Crackern und reichlich Gin Tonic. Drei reizende alte Damen wissen, dass ihnen nicht viel Zeit bleibt, eine Freundin zu rächen. Deren erfolgreiche Romane wurden von ein …

The Women’s Liberation Movement held a foundational belief in the written word’s power to incite social change. In this new collection, Jaime Harker and Cecilia Konchar Farr curate essays that reveal …