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In this collection of miscellaneous writings by Margaret Atwood, Gertrude describes what really happened in Hamlet , an ugly sister and a wicked stepmother put in a good word for themselves, and a reincarnated bat explains how Bram Stoker got Dracula hopelessly wrong.

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Atwood's offbeat fiction is always charming, insightful and provocative. - PREVIEW Full of fun and invention, with an edge that cuts through preconceptions ... an entertaining sampler of Atwood's cleverness and imagination - NICOLETTE Jones, INDEPENDENT on Sunday A novelist and poet of great gifts - GUARDIAN Everything she forms in words has substance and weight - DAILY TELEGRAPH

'Atwood's offbeat fiction is always charming, insightful and provocative.' - PREVIEW 'Full of fun and invention, with an edge that cuts through preconceptions ... an entertaining sampler of Atwood's cleverness and imagination' - NICOLETTE JONES, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY 'A novelist and poet of great gifts' - GUARDIAN 'Everything she forms in words has substance and weight' - DAILY TELEGRAPH

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Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939. She is Canada's most eminent novelist and poet is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid's Tale, Cat's Eye and Alias Grace have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and she has won many literary prizes in other countries. Her work has been translated into thirty-three languages. Her latest novel, The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker Prize.

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