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Angela Carter was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth, in their list of "The 50...
…that, "Against the present British state he opposes a kind of revolutionary populism, bawdiness, wit and the tenderness sometimes to be found between animals." Angela Carter once wrote that he was "a joyous, acrid and demotic tumbling lyricist Pied Piper, determinedly singing us away from ca...
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 p...
Author
Angela Carter
Binding
Kindle Edition
Pages
512
Publisher
Virago
ISBN #
16
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 LinkAngela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Ke...
Author
Angela Carter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
176
Publisher
Penguin Classics
ISBN #
0143107615
EAN Code
9780143107613
ISBN #
15
"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 ...
Author
Angela Carter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
128
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN #
0140108513
EAN Code
9780140108514
ISBN #
9
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 p...
Author
Angela Carter
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
512
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
ISBN #
1844081737
EAN Code
9781844081738
ISBN #
7
In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora―unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day―were known as the Lucky Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as their careers. Bu...
Author
Angela Carter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN #
0374530947
EAN Code
9780374530945
ISBN #
6
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 ...
Author
Angela Carter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
240
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN #
0140235191
EAN Code
9780140235197
ISBN #
5
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie...
Author
Angela Carter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
208
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN #
0140256407
EAN Code
9780140256406
ISBN #
4
One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents—as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and weaver of tales—are most penetratingly evident. This volu...
Author
Angela Carter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
480
Publisher
Penguin Books
ISBN #
0140255281
EAN Code
9780140255287
ISBN #
3