- Penelope (Greek mythology), Odysseus (Greek mythology), Fiction, Canadian fiction (fictional works by one author)
Homer's Odyssey is not the only version of the story. Mythic material was originally oral, and also local -- a myth would be told one way in one place and quite differently in another.
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Prestige, contemplative, character-led and open-ended.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Atwood
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 191
- Publisher
- CANONGATE, Boreal, Rizzoli
- Editions
- 50
- Language
- German, slo, Italian, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780571239498
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“Now that I’m dead I know everything.”
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published more than 50 books of fiction, poetry, and critical essays, including 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of nonfiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Her work has been published in over 40 countries, and a number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Her best-known work is the 1985 dystopian novel *The Handmaid's Tale,* and her novels also include *Cat's Eye,* shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Alias Grace, which won the
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