The Handmaid of Desire

The Handmaid of Desire

Author: John L'Heureux

Publisher: Soho Press

Published: 2003-07

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781569471234

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Hilarious satire of academia set in a northern California university literature department.


Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction

Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction

Author: Thomas Horan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-02-13

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 3319706756

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This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin’s Swastika Night, George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative literature, which can be understood collectively as projected political fiction. While Thomas Horan addresses problematic aspects of this subgenre, particularly sexist and racist stereotypes, he also highlights how some of these texts locate social responsibility in queer and other non-heteronormative sexual relationships. In these novels, even when the illicit relationship itself is truncated, sexual desire fosters hope and community.


The Handmaid's Tale

The Handmaid's Tale

Author: Margaret Atwood

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2011-09-06

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 0771008791

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An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.


Claw

Claw

Author: Ellen Mint

Publisher: Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD)

Published: 2021-03-16

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1839434899

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FROM POPULAR ROMANCE AUTHOR ELLEN MINT Book one in the Coven of Desire series He's not your typical werewolf-next-door. Layla hadn't counted on a sex demon appearing in her living room. Nor did she expect to find she's a witch, tasked with protecting the mortal realm. And now her friend, fellow nursing student and impossible crush could be a potential killer? She's silently lusted after Cal for a year, knowing a guy that hot, sweet and kind wouldn't look twice at her. All their flirting was innocent and went nowhere, until Ink—the incubus bound to her—ran into her life and bed. Next thing she knows, Cal's growling at her while Ink flirts, and women are being ripped apart by wild animals. Couldn't the murder monster mystery wait until after finals? She wanted to be a nurse, not a paranormal investigator, but Layla has no choice. Apparently only witches can stop these creatures that she didn't even know existed a month ago. But the deeper she digs, the more it looks like Cal's deep in the middle of it all. How can she save her friend from the claws of a cult, keep her sex-craved demon happy and find a way to let both into her heart and bed?


Desires

Desires

Author: John L'Heureux

Publisher: Henry Holt

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13:

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Women of Letters

Women of Letters

Author: Marieke Hardy

Publisher: Penguin Group Australia

Published: 2011-09-28

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1742534325

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In a world of the short and swift, of texts and Twitter, there's something of special value about a carefully composed letter. In homage to this most civilised of activities, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes, collected here for the first time. Claudia Karvan sends 'A love letter' to love itself, Helen Garner contacts ghosts of her past in 'The letter I wish I'd written', Noni Hazlehurst dispatches a stinging rebuke 'To my first boss', and Megan Washington pays tribute to her city and community as she writes 'To the best present I ever received'. And some gentlemen correspondents - including Paul Kelly, Eddie Perfect and Bob Ellis - have been invited to put pen to paper in a letter 'To the woman who changed my life'. By turns hilarious, moving and outrageous, this is a diverse and captivating tribute to the art of letter writing. All royalties for this book will go to Edgar's Mission animal rescue shelter.


The Handmaid's tale, roman protéen

The Handmaid's tale, roman protéen

Author: Margaret Atwood

Publisher: Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9782877752510

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Ce volume contient l’intervention de Margaret Atwood, « Genesis of The Handmaid’s Tale and Role of the Historical Notes » et la table ronde avec l’auteur, lors du colloque de Rouen du 16 novembre 1998. Sept textes inédits du colloque de Paris III du 14 novembre 1998 et du colloque de Rouen du 16 novembre 1998 mettent en relief la multiplicité des approches possibles de The Handmaid’s Tale : la vision de l’auteur, l’histoire des idées, la psychanalyse, l’étude des thèmes et des genres littéraires s’y succèdent et soulignent la richesse de ce roman multiforme.


Spirituality of the Handmaid

Spirituality of the Handmaid

Author: Kerry Walters

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780809138517

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A model of spiritual transformation based on Mary's message at Medjugorje that is expressed in the language of conception, birth and maternity. Althouth Medjugorje is the starting point here, it is not the only point. This is not a book about apparitions or miracle, but about Mary's message. We will try to appeal to lovers of Marian spirituality as well as the wackos who love the sensational aspects of Medjugorje. Will have a title change.