The Handmaids Tale [Special Edition] - Margaret Atwood

Margaret Atwood

Category: Political

Narrator: full cast

Tags: Political, General Fiction, Classic

1985, 2017, ~12h, 78Kbps VBR mono, chapterized. Not my rip. Won first Arthur C. Clarke Award; nominated for Nebula, Booker, Prometheus., Publishers description: A gripping vision of our society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwoods The Handmaids Tale has become one of the most powerful and most widely read novels of our time. [] Like Aldous Huxleys Brave New World and George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Handmaids Tale has endured not only as a literary landmark but as a warning of a possible future that is still chillingly relevant. After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even