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306 reviews
Margaret Atwood

Anchor, 2004

Brilliant
How could I have missed this masterpiece for so long ? . Ranks with 1984 and Brave New World but told in a simpler prose. Atwood hooks the reader with the enigma of Snowman's current predicament while interweaving her vision of a dystopian future. Some may not agree with her general thesis but she tells a compelling tale.

Oryx and Crake.
Margaret Atwood

Random House Inc., 2004

Oryx and Crake (Random House Large Print)
Margaret Atwood

McClelland & Stewart, 2003

Bookclub in a Box Discusses the Novel Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
Marilyn Herbert

Bookclub-In-A-Box, 2008

Oryx and Crake is a work of speculative fiction by the international literary star, Margaret Atwood. Raised in a science-oriented household, Atwood is no stranger to the curiosities of the natural world and to topics concerning the essence of the universe. It is her extensive knowledge of life, as it is and as it may evolve, that Atwood brings to this novel. The story of Oryx and Crake opens with the end of the world as we have known it so ...

Oryx and Crake

2 reviews
Margaret Atwood

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2003

"The elimination of one generation means game over forever."
Set sometime in the future, this post-apocalyptic novel takes scientific research in the hands of madmen to its logical and frightening conclusion. Inspiring readers to pay more attention to the world around them, Atwood offers cautionary notes about the environment, bioengineering, the sacrifice of civil liberties, and the possible loss of those human values which make life more than just a ...

Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2003

Oryx and Crake
Margaret Atwood

Virago Press Ltd, 2004

Pigs might not fly but they are strangely altered. So, for that matter, are wolves and racoons. A man, once named Jimmy, lives in a tree, wrapped in old bedsheets, now calls himself Snowman. The voice of Oryx, the woman he loved, teasingly haunts him. And the green-eyed Children of Crake are, for some reason, his responsibility. 'In Jimmy, Atwood has created a great character: a tragic-comic artist of the future, part buffoon, part Orpheus. An ...

Rails: A Guide to the Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots of the World

1 review
Barry Taylor

Yale University Press, 1998

Rallidae Extraordinaire
This is by far the most comprehensive text dealing with the rails and relatives. Contains excellent biological, reproductive and ecological information. The distribution maps are somewhat general but probably intentionally so. The color plates are descriptive and accurate. Even includes the most rare and extinct species. An asset for the wetlands ecologists and Gruiformes specialists.

Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune
Augustine David Crake

BiblioBazaar, 2006

It has been the aim of the Author, in a series of original tales told to the senior boys of a large school, to illustrate interesting or difficult passages of Church History by the aid of fiction.

Alfgar The Dane, 2008

ALFGAR THE DANE OR THE SECOND CHRONICLE OF AESCENDUNE: A Tale of the Days of Edmund Ironside CHAPTER I. THE DIARY OF FATHER CUTHBERT. CHAPTER II. "ALFGAR, SON OF ANLAF." CHAPTER III. THE NIGHT OF ST. BRICE. CHAPTER IV. THE DANES IN WESSEX. CHAPTER V. THE TRACKS IN THE FOREST. CHAPTER VI. THROUGH SUFFERING TO GLORY. CHAPTER VII. FATHER AND SON. CHAPTER VIII. FATHER CUTHBERT'S DIARY. CHAPTER IX. THE CAMP OF THE DANES. ...

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