English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1719 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Margaret Atwood
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The idea
Margaret Atwood, a Canadian novelist and poet born in nineteen thirty-nine, has won two Booker Prizes. Her best-known novel, The Handmaid's Tale, of nineteen eighty-five, is a dystopia set in Gilead, a totalitarian state in New England, narrated by Offred, a woman forced to bear children for powerful men.
In practice
A Canadian dystopia.
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