The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale - Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

One of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time: A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution-from "the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction" (The New York Times).  Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss.

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead, serving in the household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife. She may go out once a day to markets whose signs are now pictures because women are not allowed to read. She must pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, for in a time of declining birthrates her value lies in her fertility, and failure means exile to the dangerously polluted Colonies. Offred can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost even her own name. Now she navigates the intimate secrets of those who control her every move, risking her life in breaking the rules.

Like Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaid's Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant.

Book information

ISBN: 9780307264602
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Pub date:
DEWEY: 813.54
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 350
Weight: 490g
Height: 210mm
Width: 134mm
Spine width: 26mm