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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter
39.99 AUD
Category: Fantasy Science Fiction Horror | Reading Level: very good
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
22.99 AUD
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
Black Venus by Angela Carter
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching ...Show more
Bluebeard by Angela Carter
5.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment it is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.' Angela Carter's playful and subversive retellings of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, wily anima ...Show more
Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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
19.99 AUD
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
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia "Heroes and Villains" includes an introduction by Robert Coover in "Penguin Modern Classics". Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Prof ...Show more
Love by Angela Carter; Audrey Niffenegger (Introduction by)
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"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
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fictionFrom the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swanSophi Fevvers--the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, ...Show more
Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | 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
Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter
14.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
This title comes with a new introduction by Rachel Cooke. Reading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you've ever had; a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a person with an entirely unpredictable t ...Show more