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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction
We grow up on fairy tales but it is only later we realise what we have been fed. Angela Carter saw the power of these dark stories - stories in which objects betray, children threaten, men turn into animals and women are unsafe. Erotic, subversive, ancient, modern- the tales in this book pulse with a vi ...Show more
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Category: Classics | Series: Vmc Ser.
Cover design by Jacqueline Groag 'This crazy world whirled about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked ...She was in the night again, and the doll was herself' One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago modern classics
The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE
The Magic Toyshop: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This Audible Exclusive adaptation of Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, is brought expertly to life by multi-award winning actress, Fiona Shaw. A coming of age tale which extends the nature and boundaries of love, as seen through the eyes of the youthful and na ve Melanie, The Magic Toyshop was enormou ...Show more
The Sadeian Woman - Virago 50th Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'The tone is one of intellectual relish ... rational ... refined ... witty' NEW STATESMAN'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN 'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosophe ...Show more
Wise Children by Angela Carter
Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.