Includes group of stories inspired by America: Lizzie Borden visits a circus; a John Ford Western is spiced with the story of "Tis Pity She's a Whore" and there is a wonderful Gothic extravaganza set in Hollywood....more details Format:Electronic book text
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9781844081738
Angela Carter's pick of Mother Goose's feathers. 'Trumps Grimm, with a world-wide selection of savage and funny stories' ObserverOnce upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children...more details Format:Hardback Pages:512
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9781409042143
A collection of short stories. It includes fables that speak for themselves in tones so commanding you feel this must be Baudelaire's mistress...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780099588115
From familiar fairy tales and legends u Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves u Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark...more details Format:Paperback
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9781405896160
Packed full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780099592914
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...more details Format:Paperback
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780099222811
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...more details Format:Paperback
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9781844083671
Nine darkly inventive tales from one of Britain's most original and imaginative writers.In the short fiction of Angela Carter, the landmarks of reality disappear and give way to a landscape of riotous and uncensored sensibility...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780141192383
'An unashamed fantasist, a fabulist of daemonic energy' The Times
Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780099594215
Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman...more details Format:Paperback
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780099388616
'Angela Carter has influenced a whole generation of fellow writers towards dream worlds of baroque splendour, fairy tale horror, and visions of the alienated wreckage of a future world. In Nights at the Circus she has invented a new...more details Format:Paperback
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780099458142
Haunted by Fevvers, child of a brothel, a journalist stumbles into a journey which takes him from London to Siberia via St Petersburg into an earthy...more details Format:Paperback
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9781844083770
Angela Carter's highly acclaimed polemic enlisting the Marquis de Sade in an argument about women's sexual freedom'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:181
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780747548829
In this wonderful, inventive and very touching novel, master storyteller Angela Carter beguiles and charms with the sweetest story of a brave little cat...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:93
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780747552673
Sea-Cat lives at the bottom of the sea with his mother. And his mother loves him very much. In order to keep him warm and dry, Mother Cat knits Sea-Cat the most beautiful clothes and soon Sea-Cat comes to the attention of the rather grim and grey Dragon King...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780140178210
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires, werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9781840028874
Bryony Lavery brings to thrilling life Angela Carters tale of seduction, perversion, blood and love (itself a radical re-thinking of the story of Bluebeard) in a shockingly beautiful portrait of the corruption of adolescence in this visceral and visually stunning production that incorporates film...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780143119043
An absorbing collection of dark, sensual, and fantastic stories inspired by the fairy tales and legends of Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Beauty and the Beast...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780141192390
'One of the most original, radical and stylish fiction writers of the twentieth century' Independent
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780140256406
One night, Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning the world is shattered and she's forced to leave her childhood home. She is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met. There...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9781844085231
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...more details Format:Hardback Pages:240
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9781844083435
In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780374530945
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:234
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9781934997321
Bursting at the seam with twins, secret identities, and performers at every level from Shakespeare to strip shows, "Wise Children" is a sweeping and riotous account of the intermingled Chance and Hazard families. Dora and her twin sister...more details Format:CD
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9780099981107
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...more details Format:Paperback
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Angela Carter
ISBN:9781405835633
Do you want a better understanding of the text? Do you want to know what the critics say? Do you want to know how to improve your grade? Whatever you want...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:144
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley;Angela Carter
ISBN:9780679409991
(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) No-one in the grip of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, with its mythic-minded hero and its highly sympathetic monster who reads Goethe and longs to be at peace with himself...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:272
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Angela Carter;Jack Zipes
ISBN:9780143105367
Ten beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter Many classic fairy tale characters might not have survived into the present were it not for Charles Perrault...more details Format:Paperback Pages:78
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Carter Angela
ISBN:9780099529590
Candy - it's the only the name she needs - is blazing her way through Paris, New York and Tokyo as fashion's latest international supermodel... Her sister...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Carter Angela
ISBN:9780141195889
Angela Carter's playful and subversive retellings of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:112
In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. Angela Carter came across Perrault's work and set out to adapt the stories for modern readers of English. In breathing new life into these classic fables...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:112
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Carter Angela
ISBN:9780860683414
This story follows Evelyn, a young Englishman, along a journey through mythology and sexuality. It is a story of how he learns to be a woman...more details Format:Paperback Pages:191
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Carter Angela
ISBN:9780860680550
"Sexuality is power," wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette...more details Format:Paperback
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Carter Angela
ISBN:9780141046686
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224