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The Penelopiad
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Author : Margaret Atwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The Penelopiad written by Margaret Atwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Odysseus (Greek mythology) categories.
As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story, inexplicably hangs Penelope's twelve maids. Now, Penelope and her chorus of wronged maids tell their side of the story in a new stage version by Margaret Atwood, adapted from her own wry, witty and wise novel.
The Penelopiad
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Author : Margaret Atwood
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-10-23
The Penelopiad written by Margaret Atwood and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-23 with Performing Arts categories.
As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her husband goes to fight in the Trojan War. As she fends off the attentions of a hundred greedy suitors, travelling minstrels regale her with news of Odysseus' epic adventures around the Mediterranean - slaying monsters and grappling with amorous goddesses. When Odysseus finally comes home, he kills her suitors and then, in an act that served as little more than a footnote in Homer's original story, inexplicably hangs Penelope's twelve maids. Now, Penelope and her chorus of wronged maids tell their side of the story in a new stage version by Margaret Atwood, adapted from her own wry, witty and wise novel. The Penelopiad premiered with the Royal Shakespeare Company in association with Canada's National Arts Centre at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in July 2007.
The Penelopiad
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Author : Margaret Atwood
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2010-05-16
The Penelopiad written by Margaret Atwood and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-16 with Fiction categories.
In a splendid contemporary twist, Margaret Atwood tells Penelope's story. In Homer's account, Penelope is the constant wife. It is she who rules Odysseus's kingdom of Ithaca during his twenty-year absence at the Trojan War. She raises their wayward son and fends off over a hundred insistent suitors. When Odysseus finally returns-having vanquished monsters, slept with goddesses and endured many other well-documented hardships-he kills the suitors and also, curiously, twelve of Penelope's maids. Margaret Atwood tells the story through Penelope and her twelve hanged maids, asking: 'What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?' It's a dazzling, playful retelling, as wise and compassionate as it is haunting; as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing. The Myths series gathers a diverse group of the finest writers of our time to provide a contemporary take on our most enduring myths. 'The Penelopiad shows Atwood making off with an especially well-guarded cultural treasure-and making it new, as she always does.' Independent Weekly
Weight
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Author : Jeanette Winterson
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2007-12-01
Weight written by Jeanette Winterson and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
A “profound and provocative” reimagining of the Greek legend by the New York Times–bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal? (Daily Mail). With wit and verve, Whitbread Award–winning novelist Jeanette Winterson brings the mythical figure of Atlas into the space age and sets him free at last. In her retelling of the story of a god tricked into holding the world on his shoulders and his brief reprieve, she sets difficult questions about the nature of choice and coercion, how we choose our own destiny and at the same time can liberate ourselves from our seeming fate. “Dazzling . . . Winterson’s embrace of the mythic landscape is evident in her rich imagery . . . cathartic . . . this short novel fulfills a number of the criteria myth is meant to embody” —The New York Times Book Review
The Penelopiad Out Of Print
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Author : Margaret Atwood
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2007-11-26
The Penelopiad Out Of Print written by Margaret Atwood and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-26 with Fiction categories.
In Homer's account, Penelope's story is the salutary tale of the constant wife. It is she who rules Odysseus's kingdom of Ithaca during his twenty-year absence at the Trojan War; she who raises their wayward son and fends off over a hundred insistent suitors. When Odysseus finally returns – having vanquished monsters, slept with goddesses and endured many other well-documented hardships – he kills the suitors and also, curiously twelve of Penelope's maids. In a splendid contemporary twist, Margaret Atwood tells the story through Penelope and her twelve hanged maids, asking: 'What led to the hanging of the maids, and what was Penelope really up to?' It's a dazzling, playful retelling, as wise and compassionate as it is haunting; as wildly entertaining as it is disturbing.
The Penelopiad
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Author : Margaret Atwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-04-01
The Penelopiad written by Margaret Atwood and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-01 with categories.
The Summer He Didn T Die
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Author : Jim Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Release Date : 2007-12-01
The Summer He Didn T Die written by Jim Harrison and has been published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-01 with Fiction categories.
Three classic novellas from “one of our master chroniclers of human hungers, flaws, and frustrations.” (The Kansas City Star). Jim Harrison’s vivid, tender, and deeply felt fictions have won him acclaim as an American master of the novella. His highly acclaimed volume of novellas, The Summer He Didn’t Die, is a sparkling and exuberant collection about love, the senses, and family, no matter how untraditional. In the title novella, Brown Dog, a hapless Michigan Indian, is trying to parent his two stepchildren and take care of his family’s health on meager resources. (It helps a bit that his charms are irresistible to the new dentist in town.) Republican Wives is a wicked satire on the sexual neuroses of the right, the emptiness of a life lived for the status quo, and the irrational power of love that, when thwarted, can turn so easily into an urge to murder. And Tracking is a meditation on Harrison’s fascination with place, telling his own familiar mythology through the places his life has seen and the intellectual loves he has known. With wit as sharp and prose as lush as any Harrison has yet written, The Summer He Didn’t Die is a resonant, warm, and joyful ode to our journey on this earth. “Harrison has proved to be one of our finest storytellers. These novellas are urgent and contemporary, displaying his marvelous gifts for compression and idiosyncratic language.” —Los Angeles Times
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2019-07-16
The Penelopiad written by and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with categories.
Courage Calls To Courage Everywhere
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Author : Jeanette Winterson
language : en
Publisher: Canongate Books
Release Date : 2018-11-01
Courage Calls To Courage Everywhere written by Jeanette Winterson and has been published by Canongate Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-01 with Social Science categories.
Courage Calls to Courage Everywhere is a timely and inspiring call to arms by one of Britain’s most acclaimed and important writers. Whilst recognising how far women have come in the hundred years since getting the vote, Jeanette Winterson also insists that we must all do much more if we are to achieve true gender equality. Examining recent women’s rights movements, the worlds of politics, technology and social media and changes in the law, Winterson calls out all the ways in which women still face discrimination and disadvantage. Like the women who won the right to vote, we need to shout up, reach out, be courageous and finish the job. Also included in this volume is Emmeline Pankhurst’s landmark Suffragette speech, ‘Freedom or Death’, which she delivered in 1913.
Good Bones
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Author : Margaret Atwood
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-07-01
Good Bones written by Margaret Atwood and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-01 with Fiction categories.
A treasure trove of collected works from the legendary author of The Handmaid's Tale and Alias Grace Queen Gertrude gives Hamlet a piece of her mind. An ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves. A reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong. Bones and Murder is a bewitching cocktail of prose and poetry, fiction and fairytales, as well as some of Atwood's own illustrations. It's pure distilled Atwood: deliciously strong and bittersweet. 'A marvellous miniature sample case of Atwood's sensuous and sardonic talents' Times Literary Supplement