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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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
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 Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-8397-1 (0-7393-8397-3)
September 22, 2009 | $55.00
BONUS FEATURE: INCLUDES ORIGINAL MUSIC WITH LYRICS COMPOSED BY THE AUTHOR
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...
Unabridged Compact Disc | pages | Random House Audio | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-8397-1 (0-7393-8397-3)
September 22, 2009 | $55.00
BONUS FEATURE: INCLUDES ORIGINAL MUSIC WITH LYRICS COMPOSED BY THE AUTHOR
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...
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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
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...
The Year of the Flood
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Random House Large Print | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-2850-7 (0-7393-2850-6)
September 22, 2009 | $33.00
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...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Trade Paperback | 608 pages | Random House Large Print | Fiction - Literary
978-0-7393-2850-7 (0-7393-2850-6)
September 22, 2009 | $33.00
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...
The Door
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-0847-4 (0-7710-0847-3)
September 8, 2009 | $17.99
A stunning lyrical achievement and Atwood’s first collection of new poems in over a decade.
The Door is Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since the award-winning Morning in the Burned House (1995). Its fifty lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-0847-4 (0-7710-0847-3)
September 8, 2009 | $17.99
A stunning lyrical achievement and Atwood’s first collection of new poems in over a decade.
The Door is Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since the award-winning Morning in the Burned House (1995). Its fifty lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in...
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Morning in the Burned House
Trade Paperback | 140 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-0833-7 (0-7710-0833-3)
September 8, 2009 | $17.99
These beautifully crafted poems-by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender and intimate-come together as Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering of poems to date, “setting foot on the middle ground/between body and word.” Some draw on history, and on myth, both classical and popular. Other, more personal poems concern themselves with...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Trade Paperback | 140 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Single Author
978-0-7710-0833-7 (0-7710-0833-3)
September 8, 2009 | $17.99
These beautifully crafted poems-by turns dark, playful, intensely moving, tender and intimate-come together as Atwood's most accomplished and versatile gathering of poems to date, “setting foot on the middle ground/between body and word.” Some draw on history, and on myth, both classical and popular. Other, more personal poems concern themselves with...
Also available as a
hardcover.
The Year of the Flood
Hardcover | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-0844-3 (0-7710-0844-9)
September 8, 2009 | $32.99
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood is a brilliant visionary imagining of the future that calls to mind her classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
Adam One, the kindly leader of God’s Gardeners — a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion — has long...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Hardcover | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-0844-3 (0-7710-0844-9)
September 8, 2009 | $32.99
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood is a brilliant visionary imagining of the future that calls to mind her classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
Adam One, the kindly leader of God’s Gardeners — a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion — has long...
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and in
large print trade paperback.
The Year of the Flood
eBook | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-0845-0 (0-7710-0845-7)
September 8, 2009 | $32.99
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood is a brilliant visionary imagining of the future that calls to mind her classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
Adam One, the kindly leader of God’s Gardeners — a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion — has long...
Written by Margaret Atwood
eBook | 448 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction
978-0-7710-0845-0 (0-7710-0845-7)
September 8, 2009 | $32.99
The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood is a brilliant visionary imagining of the future that calls to mind her classic novel The Handmaid’s Tale.
Adam One, the kindly leader of God’s Gardeners — a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion — has long...
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and in
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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
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
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-0867-2 (0-7710-0867-8)
March 31, 2009 | $15.99
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
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-0867-2 (0-7710-0867-8)
March 31, 2009 | $15.99
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...
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paperback.
A Jest of God
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9378-4 (0-7710-9378-0)
December 1, 2008 | $19.95
In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.
Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness - her own and that of others - Rachel longs for love...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9378-4 (0-7710-9378-0)
December 1, 2008 | $19.95
In this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world.
Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness - her own and that of others - Rachel longs for love...
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paperback.
Alice Munro's Best
Hardcover | 536 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-6520-0 (0-7710-6520-5)
October 28, 2008 | $34.99
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 tones.”
This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls...
Hardcover | 536 pages | Douglas Gibson Books | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-6520-0 (0-7710-6520-5)
October 28, 2008 | $34.99
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 tones.”
This splendid gift edition is sure to delight Alice Munro’s growing body of admirers, what Atwood calls...
Anne of Green Gables
Trade Paperback | 376 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Juvenile Fiction
978-0-7710-9368-5 (0-7710-9368-3)
January 8, 2008 | $17.95
2008 is the 100th anniversary of Anne of Green Gables.
Anne Shirley, Mark Twain observed, is “the dearest and most loveable child in fiction since the immortal Alice,” and like the elderly Cuthberts, who had hoped to adopt a boy instead of the spunky red-headed girl, generations of readers have grown to...
Trade Paperback | 376 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction; Juvenile Fiction
978-0-7710-9368-5 (0-7710-9368-3)
January 8, 2008 | $17.95
2008 is the 100th anniversary of Anne of Green Gables.
Anne Shirley, Mark Twain observed, is “the dearest and most loveable child in fiction since the immortal Alice,” and like the elderly Cuthberts, who had hoped to adopt a boy instead of the spunky red-headed girl, generations of readers have grown to...
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The Door
Hardcover | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-0880-1 (0-7710-0880-5)
September 11, 2007 | $22.99
A stunning lyrical achievement and Atwood’s first collection of new poems in over a decade.
The Door is Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since the award-winning Morning in the Burned House (1995). Its fifty lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in...
Written by Margaret Atwood
Hardcover | 128 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Poetry; Poetry - Canadian
978-0-7710-0880-1 (0-7710-0880-5)
September 11, 2007 | $22.99
A stunning lyrical achievement and Atwood’s first collection of new poems in over a decade.
The Door is Margaret Atwood’s first book of poetry since the award-winning Morning in the Burned House (1995). Its fifty lucid yet urgent poems range in tone from lyric to ironic to meditative to prophetic, and in...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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
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...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
