Work · Novel · 1985

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood, author

Publisher: McClelland and Stewart
Units: Fifteen titled parts (seven of them headed "Night") plus a Historical Notes epilogue
isbn13: 9780771008139

A first-person account narrated by a Handmaid in the theocratic Republic of Gilead, later revealed to be a set of recovered audio cassettes. The narrative ends with her uncertain removal from the household in a plain van; a closing Historical Notes epilogue frames the whole account as a document debated by future historians.

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Novel 1985 → TV series 2017–2025 · Direct adaptationThe Handmaid's TaleSeason 1 adapts Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel across ten episodes and ends on the novel's own last image, the narrator led into a black van. Seasons 2 through 6, 56 of the show's 66 episodes, carry June Osborne past that point through a war, an escape and the liberation of a city, none of which any published Atwood text describes.63whole run · editorial

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