Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale ( 1985 ) tells a dystopic tale of a society in which women have been systematically stripped of all liberty, and was motivated by fear of potential retrogressive effects on women's rights stemming from the anti-feminist backlash of the 1980s.

* 1988 Margaret Atwood's Cat's Eye

A very similar phenomenon by the name " Noodie News " appears in Canadian Margaret Atwood's 2003 novel Oryx and Crake.

Related to Social SF and Soft SF are the speculative fiction branches of utopian or dystopian stories ; George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, are examples.

A number of respected writers of mainstream literature have written science fiction, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwells Nineteen Eighty-Four, Anthony Burgess ' A Clockwork Orange and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale describes a future North America governed by strict religious rules which only the privileged dare defy.

Moreover, their books often dealt with survival and the rugged Canadian environment ; these themes re-appear in other Canadian works, including Margaret Atwood's Survival.

* In Margaret Atwood's The Tent there's a short novel titled Nightingale, where the two sisters discuss the incident, and their names are reversed in it.

Margaret Atwood's novel The Blind Assassin also uses this technique.

* Tess of the d ' Urbervilles is referred to in Margaret Atwood's short story " My Last Duchess ", published in Moral Disorder ( 2006 ).

Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale begins with the discovery of a footlocker full of cassette tapes in the ruins of what was once Bangor, a prominent way-station on " The Underground Femaleroad " in the dystopic Republic of Gilead.

Two years earlier he had published the first study of Margaret Atwood's feminism: Margaret Atwood: A Feminist Poetics.

* Margaret Atwood's 1979 novel Life Before Man is set in Toronto in the late 1970s and several characters watch and sometimes comment upon the elections and sovereignist movement in Quebec.

Margaret Atwood's works allude to the Bonfire, as in her dystopian novels The Handmaid's Tale ( 1985 ) and Oryx and Crake ( 2003 ).

The crime and trial will form the basis for Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace in 1996.

The Arcadian Court also figures prominently in Margaret Atwood's novel The Blind Assassin, as the centre of Toronto's high society to which Iris Chase Griffen is introduced.

Examples include the multiple narrators ' feelings in William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying, the character Offred's often fragmented thoughts in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, and the development of the narrator's nightmarish experience in Queen's hit song, Bohemian Rhapsody.

In Margaret Atwood: A Critical Companion, Cooke argues that the characters of Peter, Lucy, and Mrs. Sims were drawn from people in Atwood's life – Peter being a fictionalized version of Atwood's boyfriend ( also an amateur photographer ) and later fiancé.

* The Republic of Gilead, the setting of Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel The Handmaid's Tale

* Gina Wisker: Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace: A Readers Guide ; Continuum: 2002: ISBN 0-8264-5706-1

* Canadian author Margaret Atwood's short story " My Last Duchess " appears in her short story anthology Moral Disorder ( 2006 ).

The season also hosted a revival of Larry Kramer's seminal AIDS play The Normal Heart ( produced by Studio 180 Theatre ), and the Toronto premiere of Margaret Atwood's The Penlopiad ( Nightwood Theatre ) which went on to win several Dora Mavor Moore Awards.

When she made it, the results, starring Margaret Rutherford, were popular and successful light comedies, but were disappointing to Christie herself ; nevertheless, Agatha Christie dedicated the novel The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side to Rutherford.

Whether seen as a pagan work with “ Christian coloring ” added by scribes or as a “ Christian historical novel, with selected bits of paganism deliberately laid on as ' local color ', as Margaret E. Goldsmith did in “ The Christian Theme of Beowulf ,” it cannot be denied that Christianity pervades the text, and with that, the use of the Bible as a source.

Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.

The most passionate and virile character in the novel is Rhett with whom Margaret Mitchell associates " dark sexuality " and the " black devil ".

The sales of Margaret Mitchell's novel in the summer of 1936, at the virtually unprecedented price of three dollars, reached about one million by the end of December.

Margaret Mitchell's personal collection of nearly seventy foreign language translations of her novel was given to the Atlanta Public Library after her death.

In Margaret Peterson Haddix's novel Double Identity, the main character discovers that she is a clone of her deceased older sister.

* 1937 – Gone with the Wind, a novel by Margaret Mitchell, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

* The Memoirs of Cleopatra, a novel by Margaret George

He was strongly committed to cultural relativism, and the sociologist Margaret Mader in his novel Citizen of the Galaxy is clearly a reference to Margaret Mead.

During this time, Leigh read the Margaret Mitchell novel Gone with the Wind and instructed her American agent to suggest her to David O. Selznick, who was planning a film version.

It is based on Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel.

* May 30 – Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind is first published.

* Jubilee ( novel ), by Margaret Walker

* Oryx and Crake ( 2003 ), a speculative fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, occasionally makes mentions of the protagonist and his friend entertaining themselves by watching reality TV shows of live executions, Noodie News, frog squashing, graphic surgery, and child pornography.

The film for Leone was to have been a homage to classic writers from literature such as — Edgar Lee Masters ( Spoon River Anthology ), Ambrose Bierce (" An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge "), Mark Twain (" A military campaign that failed "), Stephen Crane ( The red badge of Courage ), and Margaret Mitchell ( Gone with the Wind ), of whose novel he had wanted to film a remake.

Leone was also an avid fan of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind and the 1939 film adaptation.

BBC Radio broadcast an adaptation of the novel by Stephen Wyatt in 2004 starring Emma Fielding as Becky, Stephen Fry as the Narrator, Katy Cavanaugh as Amelia, David Calder, Philip Fox, Jon Glover, Geoffrey Whitehead as Mr. Osbourne, Ian Marsters as Mr. Sedley, Alice Hart as Maria Osbourne and Margaret Tyzack as Miss Crawley ( subsequently re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7, renamed BBC Radio 4 Extra, in twenty fifteen-minute episodes ).

At the beginning of Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, the fictional character Rhett Butler warns a group of upper-class secessionists of the folly of war with the North in terms very reminiscent of those Sherman directed to David F. Boyd before leaving Louisiana.

She is also the subject of Betty King's 1974 biographical novel Margaret of Anjou, Alan Savage's 1994 novel Queen of Lions, Anne Powers ' historical romance The Royal Consorts, and Susan Higginbotham's 2011 novel The Queen of Last Hopes.