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The Penelopiad, 2005: In “The Penelopiad,” Atwood reimagines Homer’s epic “The Odyssey” from the perspective of Penelope, the wife of Odysseus. Penelope narrates her own story from the afterlife, reflecting on her life and the events that took place during her husband’s long absence.
- The Handmaid’s Tale
- Oryx & Crake
- The Robber Bride
- The Blind Assassin
- The Testaments
- Alias Grace
- Hag-Seed
- Surfacing
- Cat’S Eye
- The Heart Goes Last
No list of Margaret Atwood’s best novels would be complete without this one. It is, without a doubt, her most famous book and the one that has brought her worldwide fame. The Handmaid’s Tale story plot focuses on a narrator known only by the name Offred, given to her by the theocratic totalitarian government, Gilead, that has taken over the United ...
Oryx & Crake is the first book in Atwood’s series of three novels in the Maddaddam Trilogy. This opening book, published in 2003, is speculative fiction and describes a dystopian world but one that has met with an overwhelming environmental disaster in the form of a plague. The novel focuses on Jimmy/Snowman, who is alone in this post-apocalyptic l...
Published in 1993, The Robber Brideis set in modern-day Toronto, Canada, and follows three female main characters. The novel uses flashbacks and various perspectives to tell the story of their romances, betrayals, and losses. Each woman tells the story of Zenia, another woman who stole their romantic partners. Each story is different, and no single...
The Blind Assassin is one of two books of fiction for which Atwood won The Man Booker Prize. The novel was published in 2000 and like many of her novels, is set in Canada. It focuses on Iris and her sister Laura. Iris looks back on her life from the perceptive of an older woman and recalls her childhood, youth, and middle age. There is a secondary ...
The Testaments is the second novel for which Atwood won The Man Booker Prize. It was published in 2019 and is the follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale. Rather than returning to Offered’s story, the novel focuses on several other characters and how they became who they are inThe Handmaid’s Tale. This includes Aunt Lydia, one of the most distasteful char...
Alias Grace is another one of Atwood’s most popular novels. It was published in 1996 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It focuses on the 1843 murders of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery in the Canadian West. The two household servants, Grace Marks and James McDermott were convicted of the crimes. Grace got life in prison, and James was h...
Hag-seed is one of Margaret Atwood’s more recent novels, published in 2016. It is a creative retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. The story focuses on Felix, a theatre director, who loses his job and receives a job at a prison teaching English literacy. While there, he decides to stage a new version of The Tempest with the inmates. Felix struggl...
Surfacing is one of Atwood’s earlier novels, published in 1972. It tells the story of a young woman who returns to Canada to search for her missing father. This sends her into a series of memories in regard to her youth, her childhood home, and her relationship with her father. She’s accompanied by her partner, poem, and a married couple. As the bo...
Cat’s Eye was published in 1988 and tells the story of Elaine Risley. She, like protagonists in other novels, looks into her past and spends time reflecting on her youth and teenage years. An important part of the novel focuses on her experiences as an eight-year-old with two friends, Carol and Grace. She goes back and forth between being confident...
The Heart Goes Last was published in 2015 that focuses on a strange near-future and a couple, Charmaine and Stan. The two, while living in their car, decide to sign up for a social experiment that would give them their own home and jobs. The only drawback is that every second month they have to live in a prison cell. While in prison, an “alternativ...
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- The Handmaid’s Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
- The Testaments (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
- Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
- The Blind Assassin
Sep 10, 2019 · Atwood published her first work in 1961, a book of poetry that won the E.J. Pratt Medal. Throughout the 1960s, Atwood continued to write while working as a college lecturer at several universities in Canada, publishing a number of popular novels, articles, and poetry volumes into the 1970s, several of which won awards.
She has even written three television scripts. She is the author of more than sixty-five books of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, children’s books and critical essays and her written works have been published in over 35 countries. At sixteen, Margaret Atwood realized she wanted to write professionally.
The Testaments is a 2019 novel by Margaret Atwood. It is the sequel to The Handmaid's Tale (1985). [2] The novel is set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale. It is narrated by Aunt Lydia, a character from the previous novel; Agnes, a young woman living in Gilead; and Daisy, a young woman living in Canada.
Sep 10, 2019 · The Testaments. : Margaret Atwood. McClelland & Stewart, Sep 10, 2019 - Fiction - 320 pages. WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE. LONGLISTED FOR THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE. INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Margaret Atwood's dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid's Tale, has become a modern classic—and now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic conclusion in ...
