MARGARET ATWOOD (b. 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, and essayist.
In her early poetry collections, THE CIRCLE GAME (1964) and THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY (1968), Atwood ponders human behaviour, celebrates the natural world, and condemns materialism. Role reversal and new beginnings are recurrent themes in her novels, all of them centred on women seeking their relationship to the world and the individuals around them. THE HANDMAID’S TALE (1985) is constructed around the written record of a woman living in sexual slavery in a repressive Christian theocracy of the future that has seized power in the wake of an ecological upheaval. The Booker Prize-winning THE BLIND ASSASSIN (2000) is an intricately constructed narrative centring on the memoir of an elderly Canadian woman ostensibly writing in order to dispel confusion about both her sister’s suicide and her own role in the posthumous publication of a novel supposedly written by her sister.
Other novels by Atwood include the surreal THE EDIBLE WOMAN (1969); SURFACING (1972), an exploration of the relationship between nature and culture that centres on a woman’s return to her childhood home in the northern wilderness of Quebec; LADY ORACLE (1976); CAT’S EYE (1988); THE ROBBER BRIDE (1993); and ALIAS GRACE (1996), a fictionalized account of a real-life Canadian girl who was convicted of two murders in a sensationalist 1843 trial. Her 2005 novel, THE PENELOPIAD, was inspired by Homer’s Odyssey.
In ORYX AND CRAKE (2003), Atwood described a plague-induced apocalypse in the near future through the observations and flashbacks of a protagonist who is possibly the event’s sole survivor. Minor characters from that book retold the dystopian tale from their perspectives in THE YEAR OF THE FLOOD (2009). MADDADDAM (2013), which continues to pluck at the biblical, eschatological, and anticorporate threads running through the previous novels, brought the satirical trilogy to a denouement. The novel THE HEART GOES LAST (2015), originally published as a serial e-book (2012-13), imagines a dystopian America in which a couple is compelled to join a community that functions like a prison.
Atwood's nonfiction includes NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEAD (2002); PAYBACK (2008), an impassioned essay that treats debt as a cultural issue rather than as a political or economic one; and IN OTHER WORLDS (2011), in which she illuminates her relationship to science fiction. Her principal work of literary criticism, SURVIVAL (1972), received much attention both in Canada and internationally.
She has won more than 55 awards in Canada and internationally, along with receiving numerous honorary degrees. She has received the Arthur C. Clarke Award (1987) and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature (2008), has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for the Governor General's Award several times, winning twice (1966, 1985). She won the PEN Pinter Prize in 2016 for the spirit of political activism threading her life and works.
The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise noted:
== NOVELS ==
* Alias Grace (McClelland & Stewart, 1997)
* Blind Assassin, The (McClelland & Stewart, 2003)
* Bodily Harm (McClelland & Stewart, 2010)
* Cat’s Eye (McClelland & Stewart, 1998)
* The Edible Woman (McClelland & Stewart, 2010)
* Hag-Seed: The Tempest Revisited (Hogarth, 2016)
* Handmaid’s Tale, The (McClelland & Stewart, 2002)
* Heart Goes Last, The (Doubleday, 2015)
* Lady Oracle (McClelland & Stewart, 1998)
* Life Before Man (McClelland & Stewart, 2010)
* MaddAddam [MaddAddam 3] (McClelland & Stewart, 2013)
* MaddAddam Trilogy, The (Vintage, 2013)
* Oryx and Crake [MaddAddam 1] (Vintage, 2009)
* Penelopiad, The (Canongate, 2005)
* Robber Bride, The (McClelland & Stewart, 1998)
* Surfacing (McClelland & Stewart, 2010)
* Year of the Flood [MaddAddam 2] (McClelland & Stewart, 2009)
== SHORT FICTION ==
* Bluebeard’s Egg (McClelland & Stewart, 1999)
* Choke Collar [Positron 2] (Byliner, 2012)
* Dancing Girls and Other Stories (McClelland & Stewart, 1998)
* Erase Me [Positron 3] (Byliner, 2012)
* Good Bones and Simple Murders (McClelland & Stewart, 2001)
* I Dream of Zenia with the Bright Red Teeth (Walrus/Coach House, 2012)
* I'm Starved for You [Positron 1] (Byliner, 2012)
* Moral Disorder (McClelland & Stewart, 2009)
* Murder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems (M & S, 1997)
* Stone Mattress: Nine Tales (Doubleday, 2014)
* Tent, The (McClelland & Stewart, 2007)
* Wilderness Tips (McClelland & Stewart, 1999)
== POETRY ==
* Animals in That Country, The (Oxford UP, 1968) -- PDF
* Circle Game, The (Anansi, 1998)
* Door, The (McClelland & Stewart, 2007)
* Interlunar (Oxford UP, 1984) -- PDF
* Journals of Susanna Moodie (Oxford UP, 1970) -- PDF
* Morning in the Burned House (Houghton Mifflin, 1995)
* Power Politics [revised edition] (Anansi, 2005)
* Procedures for Underground (Little Brown, 1970) -- PDF
* Selected Poems, 1965-1975 (Houghton Mifflin, 1976)
* Selected Poems II: Selected & New, 1976-1986 (Houghton Mifflin, 1987)
== NON-FICTION ==
* Burgess Shale: The Canadian Writing Landscape of the 1960s (Alberta, 2017)
* Conversations (Ontario Review, 1990). Edited by Earl G. Ingersoll. -- PDF
* Dire Cartographies: The Roads to Ustopia and Handmaid's Tale (Vintage, 2011)
* In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (Doubleday, 2011)
* Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982-2004 (Anansi, 2004)
* Negotiating with the Dead (Cambridge, 2002 / Virago, 2003) -- PDF + ePUB
* On Writers and Writing (McClelland & Stewart, 2014)
* Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (Anansi, 2008)
* Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (Anansi, 1982)
* Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Lit (Oxford, 1995) -- PDF
* Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (Anansi, rep. 2012)
* Two Solicitudes: Conversations [with V.-L. Beaulieu] (M & S, 1998) -- PDF
* Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Prose 1983-2005 (Carroll & Graf, 2005)
* World Split Open, The [contributor] (TinHouse, 2014)
== GRAPHIC NOVELS ==
* Angel Catbird, Vol. 1 (Dark Horse, 2016) -- PDF
* Angel Catbird, Vol. 2: To Castle Catula (Dark Horse, 2017) -- PDF
== CHILDREN’S BOOKS ==
* Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (Workman, 1995) -- PDF
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