Margaret Atwood (51 kníh)
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Margaret Atwood Alias Grace ENSometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
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Margaret Atwood Alias GraceSometimes I whisper it over to myself: Murderess. Murderess. It rustles, like a taffeta skirt along the floor.' Grace Marks. Female fiend? Femme fatale? Or weak and unwilling victim? Around the true story of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the 1840s, Margaret Atwood has created an extraordinarily potent tale of sexuality, cruelty and mystery.
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Margaret Atwood Alias GraceHistorický román Alias Grace je založen na skutečných událostech, vraždách Thomase Kinneara a Nancy Montgomeryové, z nichž byla obviněna mladičká služebná Grace Marksová a sluha James McDermott. Za mladou Grace, trpící ztrátou paměti, přijíždí do...
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Margaret Atwood Bluebeard's Egg and Other StoriesFeatures a man who finds himself surrounded by women who are becoming pale, silent and smaller; a woman's intimate life is strangely dominated by the fear of nuclear warfare; and a melancholy teenage love is swept away by a hurricane...
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Margaret Atwood Bodily HarmRennie Wilford, a young jounalist running from her life, takes an assignment to a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul (does he smuggle dope or hustle for the CIA?) ...
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Margaret Atwood Bones And MurderBy the author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace. In this collection of miscellaneous writings by Margaret Atwood, Gertrude describes what really happened in Hamlet, an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put...
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Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood Brave New World ENThis title comes with introductions by Margaret Atwood and David Bradshaw. Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations where the old,…
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Margaret Atwood Curious Pursuits EN'Whenever I resolve to write less and do something healthful instead, like ice dancing - some honey-tongued editor is sure to call me up and make me an offer I can't refuse. So in some ways this book is simply the result of an under-developed ability to say no.' Collected and published in the UK for the first time, here are essays and journalism from the brilliant novelist and poet. Ranging from book reviews of John…
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Margaret Atwood Der Report der Magd DEDie provozierende Vision eines totalitären Staats, in dem Frauen keine Rechte haben. Die Dienerin Desfred besitzt etwas, was ihr alle Machthaber, Wächter und Spione nicht nehmen können, nämlich ihre Hoffnung auf ein Entkommen, auf Liebe, auf Leben...
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Margaret Atwood Die Giftmischer DEEin schmales Buch, das es in sich hat, das Parabeln und Mini-Romane enthält, autobiographische Konfessionen, Krimis, Horrorgeschichten, Science-fiction, einiges über Männer, etliches über Vampire, alles über Frauenromane, sichere Wege zum Happy-End sowie Anleitungen zum Schreiben, zum Giftmischen oder zum Mörderspiel, bei dem alles darauf ankommt, dass Sie wissen, wann Sie aufhören müssen. Sie sind eingeladen.
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Margaret Atwood Eating FireThe evolution of Margaret Atwood's poetry illuminates a major literary talent. Through bus trips and postcards, wilderness and trivia, she reflects the passion and energy of a writer intensely engaged with her craft and the world...
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Margaret Atwood FreedomCan we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are faced with, of men and women in prisons literal and metaphorical, is frightening, but it is also a call to arms to speak and to act to preserve our freedom while we still can. And in that, there is hope. Selected from The…
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Margaret Atwood Hag-Seed EN‘It’s got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.’ Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, it will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods…
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Margaret Atwood Hag-Seed ENFelix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no other. It will boost his reputation. It will heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. Also…
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Margaret Atwood Handmaids Tale ENOffred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are…
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Margaret Atwood Kus temnoty CZNejvětší žijící kanadská spisovatelka s živelností sobě vlastní přetváří zápletku Shakespearovy tvůrčí závěti BOUŘE (1611) tak, aby v duchu alžbětinského barda poukázala nejen na křivdy a mříže, které nás uvnitř vězní, ale i na svátost odpuštění. Věhlasný divadelník Felix byl intrikány vyštípán ze svého postu, což pro něj znamená další katastrofu. Přesto nezahálí a podobně jako mág Prospero spřádá pomstu. V…
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Margaret Atwood Life Before ManLife Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensuality and suppressed rage, has just lost her latest lover to suicide...
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Margaret Atwood Maddaddam ENA man-made plague has swept the earth, but a small group survives, along with the green-eyed Crakers – a gentle species bio-engineered to replace humans. Toby, onetime member of the Gods Gardeners and expert in mushrooms and bees, is still in love with street-smart Zeb, who has an interesting past. The Crakers’ reluctant prophet, Snowman-the-Jimmy, is hallucinating; Amanda is in shock from a Painballer attack; and…
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Margaret Atwood MaddAddam ENToby, a survivor of the man-made plague that has swept the earth, is telling stories. Stories left over from the old world, and stories that will determine a new one. Listening hard is young Blackbeard, one of the innocent Crakers, the species designed to replace humanity. Their reluctant prophet, Jimmy-the-Snowman, is in a coma, so they've chosen a new hero - Zeb, the street-smart man Toby loves. As clever Pigoons…
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Margaret Atwood Nevesta zbojníčkaJeden z najlepších románov slávnej kanadskej spisovateľky. Je napísaný priam bestsellerovým štýlom, ale jeho hĺbka, šírka a bohatstvo ho radia medzi veľdiela literatúry 20. storočia. Životy troch žien, osudovo prepletené záhadnou existenciou ďalšej ženy, sa odvíjajú ako fascinujúci širokouhlý film...
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Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake ENPigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility.
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