Alias Grace

• Author : Margaret Atwood
• Publisher : Anchor
• Release : 08 June 2011

In Alias Grace, the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale takes readers into the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century—recently adapted into a 6-part Netflix original mini-series by director Mary Harron and writer/actress Sarah Polley. It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life

• Author : Margaret Atwood
• Publisher : Doubleday
• Release : 19 September 2017

Takes readers into the life and mind of Grace Marks, one of the most notorious women of the 1840s, who is serving a life sentence for murders she claims she cannot remember.Y.

• Author : Bright Summaries
• Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
• Release : 04 April 2019

Unlock the more straightforward side of Alias Grace with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, a thought-provoking novel about the historical figure of Grace Marks, who was convicted of the double murder of her employers Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery in 1843. The novel opens 15 years later, when a young doctor hoping to establish his reputation as a pioneering psychiatrist is hired to interview Grace and ascertain whether

• Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
• Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
• Release : 29 June 2016

A Study Guide for Margaret Atwood's "Alias Grace," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.

• Author : Nadine Henke
• Publisher : GRIN Verlag
• Release : 05 October 2020

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Communications - Movies and Television, grade: 1,7, , course: Gender in Film and the Visual Arts, language: English, abstract: The ambiguity of Grace herself is especially interesting about this series. Therefore, my attempt is to first analyze the narrative style, especially concerning the different timelines as well as Grace’s unreliability and ambiguity as a character and narrator. Furthermore, I will connect this way of narrating to Grace’s quilting which is omnipresent in the

• Author : Ray Moore
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 15 January 2018

Alias Grace is Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood's account of a historical double murder in Colonial Canada in the mid-Nineteenth Century. The novel deals with Atwood's characteristic themes of the position of women in society, the suppression of identity, andthe ambiguity that results from multiple versions of the truth.This comprehensive study guide aims to support reflective reading. It is ideal for both the individual reader and for reading groups/classes. The critical analysis offered brings together a range of opinion

• Author : Gina Wisker
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 26 June 2002

Continuum Contemporaries will be a wonderful source of ideas and inspiration for members of book clubs and readings groups, as well as for literature students.The aim of the series is to give readers accessible and informative introductions to 30 of the most popular, most acclaimed, and most influential novels of recent years. A team of contemporary fiction scholars from both sides of the Atlantic has been assembled to provide a thorough and readable analysis of each of the novels in

• Author : Frank Lorenz
• Publisher : GRIN Verlag
• Release : 25 August 2007

Seminar paper from the year 2001 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7 (A-), http: //www.uni-jena.de/ (Institute for Anglistics/American Studies), course: Aspects of the 'Crime Novel' in Canada and Austalia, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: With her recent novel Alias Grace Margaret Atwood has turned to the field of historical writing. In her novel which is set in 19th century Canada the female protagonist Grace Marks is a convicted murderess who is accused of having

• Author : Nathalie Fiore
• Publisher : GRIN Verlag
• Release : 15 March 2016

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Literature - Canada, grade: 2,0, , language: English, abstract: The aim of this term paper is to exemplify the central key features in Postmodernism and to analyse in how far Margaret Atwood manages to make use of them in her novel "Alias Grace". Besides, I will concentrate on Atwood’s strategies to integrate the postmodern features into the novel and to illustrate them to the reader. The first part of the term paper will

• Author : Tamara Alexis Olivia Arthur
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2021

• Author : Margaret Atwood
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 1997

Margaret Atwood's novel Alias Grace is based on the murder of Thomas Kinnear and his mistress Nancy Montgomery in 1843. Kinnear's manservant was hung for the crime, but the execution of his supposed accomplice Grace Marks, owing to her "feeble sex" and "extreme youth," was commuted to life. The entire event excited widespread interest although few agreed that justice had been served. Some denounced Grace as a cunning demon, others considered her a terrorized victim of circumstance and pleaded for mercy.

• Author : Heidi Darroch
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2021

• Author : Sandra Kumamoto Stanley
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2021

• Author : Marie Delord
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 1999

• Author : Allyson Kreuiter
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 August 2021