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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction
Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princ ...Show more
Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the w ...Show more
Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Magic
From the liars of the fantastical and fabular and from the domains of the unconscious' mysteries ...lie the brides in the Bloody Chamber - hunts unwillingly the Queen of the Vampires - slips Red Riding Hood into the arms of the Wolf - pimps our Puss-In-Boots for his lustful master. In tales that glitter ...Show more
Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter
Category: Classics
This title comes with an introduction by Salman Rushdie. As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers, and a couple of the volu ...Show more
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
Category: Classics
Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist. This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a true me ...Show more
Fireworks by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction
'I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter's first major achievement in the short-story form. Lush imaginary forests, a mur ...Show more
Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction
The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to ques ...Show more
Love by Angela Carter; Audrey Niffenegger (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
"One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities." Annabel and Lee are married; Lee and Buzz are brothers. A quirky threesome, they have s ...Show more
Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South L ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks by Angela Carter; Joan Acocella (Introduction by)
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middle-aged aristocrat and transported to h ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition Ser.
For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural s most celebrated book featuring a new introduction by Kelly Link Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
Category: Fiction
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, ...Show more