Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood
Published by McClelland and Stewart
Hardcover, Dust Jacket in Protective Mylar Sleeve
1983 First Canadian Edition
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Bluebeard's Egg is a collection of short stories by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, first published in 1983. The book's first American edition was released in 1986 under the name Bluebeard's Egg and other stories. In this collection, Atwood explores the politics of sex and heterosexual relationships, examining the emotions, betrayals, and casualties of such relationships. Four of the stories in the collection depart from this theme to instead present presumably autobiographic ruminations on the narrator's childhood influences. The majority of these stories are set in downtown Toronto.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published eighteen books of poetry, eighteen novels, eleven books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early age. Atwood is a founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada. She is also a Senior Fellow of Massey College, Toronto. She is the inventor of the LongPen device and associated technologies that facilitate remote robotic writing of documents.
Select Bibliography:
Novels
- The Edible Woman (1969)
- Surfacing (1972)
- Lady Oracle (1976)
- Life Before Man (1979, finalist for the Governor General's Award)
- Bodily Harm (1981)
- The Handmaid's Tale (1985, winner of the 1987 Arthur C. Clarke Award and 1985 Governor General's Award, finalist for the 1986 Booker Prize)
- Cat's Eye (1988, finalist for the 1988 Governor General's Award and the 1989 Booker Prize)
- The Robber Bride (1993, finalist for the 1994 Governor General's Award)
- Alias Grace (1996, winner of the 1996 Giller Prize)
- The Blind Assassin (2000, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and finalist for the 2000 Governor General's Award, shortlisted for the 2001 Orange Prize for Fiction.)
- Oryx and Crake (2003, finalist for the 2003 Booker Prize and the 2003 Governor General's Award and shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize for Fiction.)
- The Penelopiad (2005, nominated for the 2006 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award)
- The Year of the Flood (2009, Oryx and Crake companion)
- MaddAddam (2013) (Third novel in Oryx and Crake trilogy)
- Scribbler Moon (written in 2014 as part of the Future Library project)
- The Heart Goes Last (2015) (Winner of the 2015 Red Tentacle award)
- Hag-Seed (2016) (Longlisted for the 2017 Women Prize for Fiction)
- The Testaments (2019, joint winner of the 2019 Booker Prize)
Short fiction collections
- Dancing Girls (1977, winner of the St. Lawrence Award for Fiction)
- Murder in the Dark (1983)
- Bluebeard's Egg (1983)
- Wilderness Tips (1991, finalist for the Governor General's Award)
- Good Bones (1992)
- Good Bones and Simple Murders (1994)
- The Labrador Fiasco (1996)
- The Tent (2006)
- Moral Disorder (2006)
- Stone Mattress (2014)
- Old Babes in the Wood (2023)
Poetry collections
- Double Persephone (1961)
- The Circle Game (1964, winner of the 1966 Governor General's Award)
- Expeditions (1965)
- Speeches for Doctor Frankenstein (1966)
- The Animals in That Country (1968)
- The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)
- Procedures for Underground (1970)
- Power Politics (1971)
- You Are Happy (1974) Includes the poem Song of the Worms
- Selected Poems (1976)
- Two-Headed Poems (1978)
- True Stories (1981)
- Love Songs of a Terminator (1983)
- Snake Poems (1983)
- Interlunar (1984)
- Selected Poems 1966–1984 (Canada)
- Selected Poems II: 1976–1986 (US)
- Morning in the Burned House, McClelland & Stewart (1995)
- Eating Fire: Selected Poems, 1965–1995 (UK,1998)
- The Door (2007)
- Dearly (2020)
Children's books
- Up in the Tree (1978)
- Anna's Pet (1980) (with Joyce C. Barkhouse)
- For the Birds (1990) (with Shelly Tanaka)
- Princess Prunella and the Purple Peanut (1995)
- Rude Ramsay and the Roaring Radishes (2003)
- Bashful Bob and Doleful Dorinda (2006)
- Wandering Wenda and Widow Wallop's Wunderground Washery (2011)
Non-fiction
- Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972)
- Days of the Rebels 1815–1840 (1977)
- Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1982)
- Through the One-Way Mirror (1986)
- Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature (1995)
- Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing (2002)
- Moving Targets: Writing with Intent, 1982–2004 (2004)
- Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose 1983–2005 (2005)
- Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth (2008)
- In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011)
- On Writers and Writing (2015)
- Burning Questions: Essays & Occasional Pieces 2004-2021 (2022)
Graphic novels
- Angel Catbird, with Johnnie Christmas and Tamra Bonvillain (2016)
- War Bears, with Ken Steacy (2018)
Television scripts
- The Servant Girl (1974)
- Snowbird (1981)
- Heaven on Earth (1987)