Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939, and grew up in northern Quebec and Ontario, and later in Toronto. She has lived in numerous cities in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.
She is the author of more than forty books — novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, social history, and books for children. Atwood’s work is acclaimed internationally and has been published around the world. Her novels include The Handmaid’s Tale and Cat’s Eye — both shortlisted for the Booker Prize; The Robber Bride, winner of the Trillium Book Award and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award; Alias Grace...
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Oryx and Crake
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-40084-0 (0-307-40084-0)
July 27, 2010 | $22.00
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize.
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood...
Written by Margaret Atwood
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-40084-0 (0-307-40084-0)
July 27, 2010 | $22.00
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A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize.
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood...
The Year of the Flood
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39798-0 (0-307-39798-X)
July 27, 2010 | $22.00
Written by Margaret Atwood
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39798-0 (0-307-39798-X)
July 27, 2010 | $22.00
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From the Booker Prize–winning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam Trilogy, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst others, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice
In a world...
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The Year of the Flood
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39892-5 (0-307-39892-7)
July 27, 2010 | $22.00
Written by Margaret Atwood
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39892-5 (0-307-39892-7)
July 27, 2010 | $22.00
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From the Booker Prize–winning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam Trilogy, and The Handmaid’s Tale. Internationally acclaimed as ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by, amongst others, the Globe and Mail, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Village Voice
In a world...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
The Flu Pandemic and You
eBook | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Health & Fitness - Diseases; Health & Fitness
978-0-307-37319-9 (0-307-37319-3)
November 17, 2009 | $14.95
An essential survival guide – both to pandemic influenza, and to the hype surrounding it.
Written by an emergency physician and a public health physician, The Flu Pandemic and You is a frank and clear book about how to prepare for the next influenza pandemic, and how to understand the broader context...
eBook | 240 pages | Doubleday Canada | Health & Fitness - Diseases; Health & Fitness
978-0-307-37319-9 (0-307-37319-3)
November 17, 2009 | $14.95
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An essential survival guide – both to pandemic influenza, and to the hype surrounding it.
Written by an emergency physician and a public health physician, The Flu Pandemic and You is a frank and clear book about how to prepare for the next influenza pandemic, and how to understand the broader context...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books
Hardcover | 440 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27175-4 (0-307-27175-7)
November 10, 2009 | $22.00
The final volume in the Everyman’s Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations.
No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob...
Hardcover | 440 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-27175-4 (0-307-27175-7)
November 10, 2009 | $22.00
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The final volume in the Everyman’s Library Charles Dickens collection: the timeless story of everyone’s favorite misanthrope, Ebenezer Scrooge, together with four more of Dickens’s Christmas tales and with Arthur Rackham’s classic illustrations.
No holiday season is complete without the story of tightfisted Mr. Scrooge, of his long-suffering and mild-mannered clerk, Bob...
The Year of the Flood
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-8398-8 (0-7393-8398-1)
September 22, 2009 | $27.95
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-8398-8 (0-7393-8398-1)
September 22, 2009 | $27.95
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The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power.
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Oryx and Crake
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39848-2 (0-307-39848-X)
July 28, 2009 | $22.00
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.
This is Margaret Atwood at...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39848-2 (0-307-39848-X)
July 28, 2009 | $22.00
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A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it.
This is Margaret Atwood at...
Moral Disorder
Paperback | 304 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-4000-2504-6 (1-4000-2504-4)
September 11, 2007 | $11.99
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 with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of a baby, divorce and...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Paperback | 304 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-1-4000-2504-6 (1-4000-2504-4)
September 11, 2007 | $11.99
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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 with it, while evoking the drama and the humour that colour common experiences — the birth of a baby, divorce and...
The Flu Pandemic and You
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Health & Fitness - Diseases; Health & Fitness
978-0-385-66277-2 (0-385-66277-7)
September 26, 2006 | $19.95
An essential survival guide – both to pandemic influenza, and to the hype surrounding it.
Written by an emergency physician and a public health physician, The Flu Pandemic and You is a frank and clear book about how to prepare for the next influenza pandemic, and how to understand the broader context...
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Doubleday Canada | Health & Fitness - Diseases; Health & Fitness
978-0-385-66277-2 (0-385-66277-7)
September 26, 2006 | $19.95
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An essential survival guide – both to pandemic influenza, and to the hype surrounding it.
Written by an emergency physician and a public health physician, The Flu Pandemic and You is a frank and clear book about how to prepare for the next influenza pandemic, and how to understand the broader context...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Penelopiad
Trade Paperback | 216 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mythology
978-0-676-97425-6 (0-676-97425-2)
August 15, 2006 | $17.95
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 tales that reflect and shape our lives–mirroring our fears and desires, helping us make sense of the world–are revisited...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Trade Paperback | 216 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Mythology
978-0-676-97425-6 (0-676-97425-2)
August 15, 2006 | $17.95
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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 tales that reflect and shape our lives–mirroring our fears and desires, helping us make sense of the world–are revisited...
Oryx and Crake
Paperback | 464 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7704-2935-5 (0-7704-2935-1)
April 20, 2004 | $11.99
A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize.
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Paperback | 464 pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7704-2935-5 (0-7704-2935-1)
April 20, 2004 | $11.99
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A stunning and provocative new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize.
Margaret Atwood’s new novel is so utterly compelling, so prescient, so relevant, so terrifyingly-all-too-likely-to-be-true, that readers may find their view of the world forever changed after reading it. This is Margaret Atwood...
Negotiating with the Dead
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays
978-0-385-65984-0 (0-385-65984-9)
September 9, 2003 | $19.95
Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood’s definitive look at the role of the writer.
What 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 development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors that writers...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Anchor Canada | Literary Criticism & Collections - Essays
978-0-385-65984-0 (0-385-65984-9)
September 9, 2003 | $19.95
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Acclaimed author Margaret Atwood’s definitive look at the role of the writer.
What 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 development of her writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors that writers...
Oryx and Crake
Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7704-2952-2 (0-7704-2952-1)
May 6, 2003 | $65.95
Seal Books is proud to release the audio version of Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood’s new novel that is being billed as her most terrifying and brave. Oryx and Crake is sure to be an instant bestseller and contemporary classic. Do not miss out on the audio version.
Oryx and Crake is...
Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Seal Books | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7704-2952-2 (0-7704-2952-1)
May 6, 2003 | $65.95
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Seal Books is proud to release the audio version of Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood’s new novel that is being billed as her most terrifying and brave. Oryx and Crake is sure to be an instant bestseller and contemporary classic. Do not miss out on the audio version.
Oryx and Crake is...
She
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-75905-5 (0-375-75905-0)
January 8, 2002 | $14.00
A runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard’s She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two thousand years. She has bewitched readers from...
Written by H. Rider Haggard
Illustrated by Charles H.M. Kerr and Maurice Greiffenhagen
Introduction by Margaret Atwood
Illustrated by Charles H.M. Kerr and Maurice Greiffenhagen
Introduction by Margaret Atwood
Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-75905-5 (0-375-75905-0)
January 8, 2002 | $14.00
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A runaway bestseller on its publication in 1887, H. Rider Haggard’s She is a Victorian thrill ride of a novel, featuring a lost African kingdom ruled by a mysterious, implacable queen; ferocious wildlife and yawning abysses; and an eerie love story that spans two thousand years. She has bewitched readers from...
The Blind Assassin
Paperback | 672 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-0-7704-2882-2 (0-7704-2882-7)
September 11, 2001 | $11.99
Winner of the Booker Prize 2000, The Blind Assassin is a spellbinding novel that spans the decades between the First World War and the present, offering the sweep of an epic and the intimate focus of a family drama.
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Paperback | 672 pages | Seal Books | Fiction
978-0-7704-2882-2 (0-7704-2882-7)
September 11, 2001 | $11.99
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Winner of the Booker Prize 2000, The Blind Assassin is a spellbinding novel that spans the decades between the First World War and the present, offering the sweep of an epic and the intimate focus of a family drama.
For the past twenty-five years, Margaret Atwood has written works of striking originality...
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