The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Angela Carter

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
176 Seiten
1995
Vintage Classics (Verlag)
978-0-09-958811-5 (ISBN)
12,45 inkl. MwSt
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
Discover Angela Carter’s classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling.

From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

‘Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality’ Ian McEwan

‘A quirky, original, and baroque stylist’ Margaret Atwood

Featuring an introduction from award-winning short story writer Helen Simpson

Angela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by the Magic Toyshop in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further four novels, together with three collections of Short Stories, two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela Carter died in 1992

Reihe/Serie Vintage Classics
Einführung Helen Simpson
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 196 mm
Gewicht 130 g
Themenwelt Literatur Historische Romane
Literatur Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
Literatur Romane / Erzählungen
ISBN-10 0-09-958811-0 / 0099588110
ISBN-13 978-0-09-958811-5 / 9780099588115
Zustand Neuware
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