Books

Third UK printing (same year as the first), bearing the circular blind embossed stamp of author John Fowles. Accompanied by a letter addressed to his wife Elizabeth, on Jonathan Cape letterhead, from publisher Tom Maschler. Light staining to jacket flaps and offsetting from that to free endpapers; not price clipped; light toning to leaves.

The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published in 1985. It is set in a near-future New England, in a totalitarian state resembling a theonomy that has overthrown the United States government. The novel focuses on the journey of the handmaid Offred, her life in this regime, and her role in society to produce children against her will.