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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Angela Carter Helen Simpson

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English
Vintage
20 December 2023
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful

A 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, 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

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful

INTRODUCED BY HELEN SIMPSON

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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 204mm,  Width: 138mm,  Spine: 25mm
Weight:   308g
ISBN:   9781784878689
ISBN 10:   1784878685
Series:   Vintage Quarterbound Classics
Pages:   240
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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