The Penelopiad

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Margaret Atwood. The Penelopiad

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Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. In addition to the classic, The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008. In 2017, The Handmaid's Tale was adapted for an Emmy-nominated TV series and Alias Grace was adapted into a Netlix Original.

‘… Shrewd Odysseus! … You are a fortunate man to have won a wife of such pre-eminent virtue! How faithful was your flawless Penelope, Icarius’ daughter! How loyally she kept the memory of the husband of her youth! The glory of her virtue will not fade with the years, but the deathless gods themselves will make a beautiful song for mortal ears in honour of the constant Penelope.’

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xx Slanderous Gossip

xxi The Chorus Line: The Perils of Penelope, A Drama

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