The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Briscoe, Lee Thompson. Scarlet Letters: Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Toronto: ECW Press, 1997.

Ingersoll, Earl G., ed. Margaret Atwood: Conversations. Princeton, New Jersey: Ontario Review Press, 1990.

McCombs, Judith, ed. Critical Essays on Margaret Atwood. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co., 1988.

Rao, Eleonora. Strategies for Identity: The Fiction of Margaret Atwood. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 1994.

Staels, Hilda. Margaret Atwood’s Novels: A Study of Narrative Discourse. Tubingen, Germany: Francke Verlag, 1995.

Wilson, Sharon Rose. Margaret Atwood’s Fairy-Tale Sexual Politics. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993.

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