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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale
(1985) is a
dystopian novel
, a work of
speculative fiction
, by
Canadian author
Margaret Atwood
. Set in the near future, in a
totalitarian
Christian
theocracy
which has overthrown the
United States
government,
The Handmaid's Tale
explores themes of women in subjugation and the various means by which they gain
agency
. The novel's title was inspired by
Geoffrey Chaucer
's
The Canterbury Tales
, which is a series of connected stories ("The Merchant's Tale", "The Parson's Tale", etc.)
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