Wandering Wenda

Wandering Wenda
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: McArthur & Co
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2011-09-23
Genre:
ISBN: 1770871543

In Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery, best-selling author Margaret Atwood offers a wonderfully whimsical tale about a girl in search of her missing parents. After her wise and watchful parents are whisked away, Wenda lives on wieners from the wastebin of a wagonette. She soon befriends the woodchuck Wesley, and before long they find themselves captives of the Widow Wallop at her Wunderground Washery, where the whites are whiter than white. In the washery, they meet Wilkinson, Wu, and Wanapitai, three waifs also missing their parents. Together, Wenda, Wesley, Wilkinson, Wu, and Wanapitai plot to escape the Widow Wallop and her endless washing. With Atwood’s delightful text accompanied by Dusan Petricic’s engaging and insightful illustrations,Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washeryis a worthy treat for readers of all ages.

Wandering Wenda and the Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery

Wandering Wenda and the Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781770871878

In Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery, best-selling author Margaret Atwood offers a wonderfully whimsical tale about a girl in search of her missing parents. After her wise and watchful parents are whisked away, Wenda lives on wieners from the wastebin of a wagonette. She soon befriends the woodchuck Wesley, and before long they find themselves captives of the Widow Wallop at her Wunderground Washery, where the whites are whiter than white. In the washery, they meet Wilkinson, Wu, and Wanapitai, three waifs also missing their parents. Together, Wenda, Wesley, Wilkinson, Wu, and Wanapitai plot to escape the Widow Wallop and her endless washing. With Atwood’s delightful text accompanied by Dusan Petricic’s engaging and insightful illustrations, Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery is a worthy treat for readers of all ages.

A Trio of Tolerable Tales

A Trio of Tolerable Tales
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2017-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1554989345

Three hilarious Margaret Atwood tales, together in a chapter book for the first time! In Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes, Ramsay runs away from his revolting relatives and makes a new friend with more refined tastes. The second tale, Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda, features Bob, who was raised by dogs, and Dorinda, who does housework for relatives who don’t like her. It is only when they become friends that they realize they can change their lives for the better. And finally, to get her parents back, Wenda and her woodchuck companion have to outsmart Widow Wallop in Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop’s Wunderground Washery. Young readers will become lifelong fans of Margaret Atwood’s work and the kind of wordplay that makes these tales such rich fare, whether they are read aloud or enjoyed independently. Reminiscent of Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories, these compelling tales are a lively introduction to alliteration. Key Text Features illustrations humour Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.4 Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative language such as metaphors and similes. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.5.7 Analyze how visual and multimedia elements contribute to the meaning, tone, or beauty of a text (e.g., graphic novel, multimedia presentation of fiction, folktale, myth, poem).

Survival

Survival
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2013-03-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1770892524

When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is "survival and victims." Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives. This new edition features a foreword by the author.

Payback

Payback
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2007-03-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0887848729

Available in a new edition and with an introduction by Margaret Atwood, Payback delivers a surprising look at the topic of “debt” — a subject that continues to be timely. Legendary novelist, poet, and essayist Margaret Atwood delivers a surprising look at the topic of “debt” — a subject that continues to be timely during this current period of economic upheaval. In her intelligent and imaginative approach to the subject, Atwood proposes that “debt” is like air — something we take for granted and never think about until things go wrong. This is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon those subjects. Rather, it goes far deeper into an investigation of debt as a very old, very central motif in religion, literature, and the structure of human societies. By looking at how debt has informed our thinking from preliterate times to the present day, through the stories we tell to our concepts of “revenge” and “sin” to the way we structure our social relationships, Atwood shows that this idea of what we owe — in other words, “debt” — is possibly built into the human imagination as one of its most dynamic metaphors. In the final section, Atwood touches upon not only our current global financial situation, but also the concept of our “debt to nature” and how our ideas of ownership and debt must be changed if we are to find a new way to interact with our natural environment.

Old Babes in the Wood

Old Babes in the Wood
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2023-03-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385549083

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments, a dazzling collection of short stories that look deeply into the heart of family relationships, marriage, loss and memory, and what it means to spend a life together "If you consider yourself an Atwood fan and have only read her novels: Get your act together. You’ve been missing out.” —The New York Times Book Review, Rebecca Makkai, best-selling author of The Great Believers Margaret Atwood has established herself as one of the most visionary and canonical authors in the world. This collection of fifteen extraordinary stories—some of which have appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine—explore the full warp and weft of experience, speaking to our unique times with Atwood’s characteristic insight, wit and intellect. The two intrepid sisters of the title story grapple with loss and memory on a perfect summer evening; “Impatient Griselda” explores alienation and miscommunication with a fresh twist on a folkloric classic; and “My Evil Mother” touches on the fantastical, examining a mother-daughter relationship in which the mother purports to be a witch. At the heart of the collection are seven extraordinary stories that follow a married couple across the decades, the moments big and small that make up a long life of uncommon love—and what comes after. Returning to short fiction for the first time since her 2014 collection Stone Mattress, Atwood showcases both her creativity and her humanity in these remarkable tales which by turns delight, illuminate, and quietly devastate.

The Circle Game

The Circle Game
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 99
Release: 2012
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1770892788

The appearance of Margaret Atwood's first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as we've come to know in later works, such as Power Politics, Bodily Harm, and Alias Grace. Atwood writes compassionately about the risks of love in a technological age, and the quest for identity in a universe that cannot quite be trusted. Containing many of Atwood's best and most famous poems, The Circle Game won the 1966 Governor General's Award for Poetry and rapidly attained an international reputation as a classic of modern poetry.

A Story Larger than My Own

A Story Larger than My Own
Author: Janet Burroway
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-02-07
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 022601424X

In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. “Lines on a Half-Painted House” made it into the magazine—but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband’s employer, verification that the poem was her original work. Kumin, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was part of a groundbreaking generation of women writers who came of age during the midcentury feminist movement. By challenging the status quo and ultimately finding success for themselves, they paved the way for future generations of writers. In A Story Larger than My Own, Janet Burroway brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives. The essays and poems featured in this collection illustrate that even writers who achieve critical and commercial success experience a familiar pattern of highs and lows over the course of their careers. Along with success comes the pressure to sustain it, as well as a constant search for subject matter, all too frequent crises of confidence, the challenges of a changing publishing scene, and the difficulty of combining writing with the ordinary stuff of life—family, marriage, jobs. The contributors, all now over the age of sixty, also confront the effects of aging, with its paradoxical duality of new limitations and newfound freedom. Taken together, these stories offer advice from experience to writers at all stages of their careers and serve as a collective memoir of a truly remarkable generation of women.

The Fiction of Margaret Atwood

The Fiction of Margaret Atwood
Author: Fiona Tolan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2022-09-22
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350336742

Margaret Atwood is one of the most significant writers working today. Her writing spans seven decades, is phenomenally diverse and ambitious, and has amassed an enormous body of literary criticism. In this invaluable guide, Fiona Tolan provides a clear and comprehensive overview of evolving critical approaches to Atwood's work. Addressing all of the author's key texts, the book deftly guides the reader through the most characteristic, influential, and insightful critical readings of the last fifty years. It highlights recurring themes in Atwood's work, such as gender, feminism, power and violence, fairy tale and the gothic, environmental destruction, and dystopian futures. This is an indispensable companion for anyone interested in reading and writing about Margaret Atwood.

Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson

Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson
Author: Graeme Gibson
Publisher: House of Anansi
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1770898166

Originally published in 1970, Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson is a collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and more. With the intuition of an insider, Gibson asks the important questions: In what way is writing important to you? Do writers know something special? Does he or she have any responsibility to society? The result is a fascinating and immensely readable series of conversations with famed writers at the beginning of their careers. The A List edition will feature a new introduction by Graeme Gibson and interviews with the following authors: Margaret Atwood Austin Clarke Matt Cohen Marian Engel Timothy Findley Dave Godfrey Margaret Laurence Jack Ludwig Alice Munro Mordecai Richler Scott Symons