The Handmaid's Tale
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An excerpt from Margaret Atwood's classic story, The Handmaid's Tale.
This is a word of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
First Anchor Books Edition, April 1998
Copyright © 1986 by O. W. Toad, Ltd.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Houghton Mifflin Company in 1986. The Anchor Books edition is published by arrangement with Houghton Mifflin Company.
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