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From the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments—one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web.

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... their Scottish estate. Having been a highly popular and active member of the ton, she worries that being stranded in the Highlands will be a horrible bore. But how can one be bored when a. 1 The Robber Bride The Bedeviled Bride, ...

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Brothers Grimm. air and jumped right over the barrel and fell straight into the bride's lap. The robber took a candle and began looking for it, but he couldn't find it. Then another of them said: 'Did you look behind the big barrel as ...

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... Lockhart, or that would have broken his heart in two. So Rosamond went on, and by dint of begging one mail rider after another, and trotting upon one white pony after another black horse, she made 180 THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM.

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A collection of original essays by well-known Atwood scholars offering contemporary critical readings and assessments of three well known Atwood texts.

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Essay from the year 2018 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, , language: English, abstract: In her intertextual title with the German fairy tale number 40 collected by the Brothers Grimm under the title "The robber ...

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This splendid novel, first published in 1993, is an exploration of the paradox of woman as villain.

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... The Robber Bride , which is a Gothic tale set in Toronto of the 1990s . This time Atwood surprises her read- ers by writing a postmodern Gothic romance which contains a network of references to other traditional genres . There are ...