Angela Carter Books

Ten little books in a shelf box. Box itself shows a bit of shelf wear but is intact with no tears. The little books are all intact, but some are slightly yellowed with age but are clean and have been well protected.

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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 volumes are now out of print. In BURNING YOUR BOATS they are gethered together for the first time; this is a key collection and a major event for Angela Carter aficionados. It brings some important work back into print, including THE BLOODY CHAMBER - her seminal collection of fairytales in which she rewrote stories such as Little Red Riding Hood and Beauty and the Beast in her characteristically subversive, earthy way. This publication in 1995 will begin a major Angela Carter promotion; a celebration of the publication of her Collected Works, and a major push for the back list, with an order form for all of the Chatto, Vintage and Virago titles. This enticing, fat volume of Carter's surprising and inventive stories will be one of the most exciting events in the promotion.

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This intellectual autobiography presents Angela Carter as a significant figure in twentieth-century literature, showcasing her unique blend of drama, outrage, and humor. Through her narrative, readers gain insight into her thoughts and experiences, revealing her impact as a critical thinker and a vibrant voice in the literary world. The book captures the essence of her fiction while offering a deeper understanding of her life and ideas.

Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This 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 princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.

The book offers an intellectually stimulating exploration with a tone that is both refined and witty. It engages readers through its rational discourse while avoiding the ordinary, providing a unique perspective that invites deeper contemplation. The writing style is characterized by an appreciation for nuance and sophistication, making it appealing to those who enjoy thoughtful and articulate narratives.

These two collections of little-known stories from Europe, the Arctic, the USA, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, contain tales of alluring women, ailing warriors, enchantresses and seekers of revenge. The heroines are always centre stage, as large as life, or even larger.

Saints and Strangers (also published as Black Venus ), is an anthology of short fiction. Angela Carter takes real people and literary legends - most often women - who have been mythologized or marginalized and recasts them in a new light. In a style that is sensual, cerebral, almost hypnotic, "The Fall River Axe-Murders" portrays the last hours before Lizzie Borden's infamous act: the sweltering heat, the weight of flannel and corsets, the clanging of the factory bells, the food reheated and reserved despite the lack of adequate refrigeration, the house "full of locked doors that open only into other rooms with other locked doors." In "Our Lady of the Massacre" the no-nonsense voice of an eighteenth-century prostitute/runaway slave questions who is civilized - the Indians or the white men? "Black Venus" gives voice to Charles Baudelaire's Creole mistress, Jeanne Duval: "you could say, not so much that Jeanne did not understand the lapidary, troubled serenity of her lover's poetry but, that it was a perpetual affront to her. He recited it to her by the hour and she ached, raged and chafed under it because his eloquence denied her language." "The Kiss" takes the traditional story of Tamburlaine's wife and gives it a new and refreshing ending. Sometimes disquieting, sometimes funny, always thought-provoking, Angela Carter's stories offer a feminist revision of images that lie deep in the public psyche.

The book explores the complex relationship between pornography and feminism, arguing that current ideologies fail to recognize the potential for transformation within the industry. It critiques how contemporary views of pornography contribute to the oppression of women, suggesting that a shift in perspective could lead to more empowering representations. By examining the implications of these ideologies, the author invites readers to reconsider the role of pornography in society and its impact on gender dynamics.

'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality' - Ian McEwan From the familiar material of 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. ' The Bloody Chamber 's interweaving of retold fairy tales demonstrates Angela Carter's narrative gift as its most mocking and seductive' - Observer

Wise Children follows the fortunes of the Chance twins, Dora and Nora, taking in the story of their show business family -- the Hazards -- over the past century. Born illegitimately, spurned by their father Melchior and brought up by their landlady, Mrs Chance, Dora and Nora learn to dance, and begin to forge a career, “two girls pounding the boards”. After the post-war decline of their careers they are reduced to performing in nude revues, while the latest generation of Hazards rise to fame as stars of television. Angela Carter's witty and bawdy new novel celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK 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 measure of the wide focus of her interests: the brothers Grimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizbaeth David; British writing: American writing; sexuality, from Josephine Baker to the history of the corset; and appreciations of the work of Joyce and Christina Stead.

Set in 1899. Through the circus flier F̀evvers', the author mocks cliches of Gothic romance, melodrama, farce, fairytale, and utopian vision.

Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' Observer

Angela Carter's 'The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman' was first published in 1972, and is a magical, satirical adventure.

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

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, She Produced Versions That Live On As Classics In Their Own Right, Marked As Much By Her Signature Wit, Irony, And Subversiveness As They Are By The Qualities That Have Made Them Universally Appealing For Centuries.

This collection of stories, about bad girls and wicked women, extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. The authors featured include Ama Ata Aidoo, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Colette, Bessie Head, Katherine Mansfield and Jamaica Kincaid.CONTENTSIntroductionElizabeth Jolley: The Last CropLeonora Carrington: The DébutanteRocky Gámez: From The Gloria StoriesBessie Head: LifeJane Bowles: A Guatemalan IdyllKatherine Mansfield: The Young GirlSuniti Namjoshi: Three Feminist FablesColette: The Rainy MoonGeorge Egerton: WedlockFrances Towers: VioletAma Ata Aidoo: The PlumsGrace Paley: A Woman Young And OldAndrée Chedid: The Long TrialAngela Carter: The Loves Of Lady PurpleDjuna Barnes: The EarthVernon Lee: Oke Of OkehurstJamaica Kincaid: GirlLuo Shu: Aunt Liu

A collection of Angela Carter's stories, as yet unpublished in book form. It is divided into two parts. The first is a group of stories inspired by America, including a Gothic extravaganza set in Hollywood. The second section draws upon such sources as fairy tales, the Bible and medieval legend.

An exciting approach to English LiteraturePacked with features designed to help students get the most from the text they are -          Summaries with detailed commentaries -          Extended commentaries on key passages -          Discussion of themes and literary techniques -          Author biography -          Historical and literary background -          Chronology of important events -          ‘Check the net/film/book’ features -          Glossary of literary terms -          Self-test questions

In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middle-aged aristocrat and transported to his ancestral abode to re-enact the story of Bluebeard against a sumptuous fin de si�cle background; a British soldier on a cycling holiday in Transylvania in the summer of 1914 finds himself the guest of an alluring female vampire. By contrast, in Wise Children, Carter's last novel), the comic, the bawdy and the life-enhancing prevail. An irrepressible elderly lady recalls the many colourful decades she and her sister spent as vaudeville performers - a tale as full of twins and mistaken identities as any plot of Shake- speare's. The early collection, Fireworks, reveals Carter taking her first forays into the fantastic writing that was to become her unforgettable legacy. The Everyman's Library omnibus gathers the best of Angela Carter in one astonishing volume.

The novel is from the perspective of Desiderio, a bureau member in the main city currently under attack by Dr Hoffman’s desire machines. With them, Hoffman expands the dimensions of time-space, allowing mutating mirages to inhabit the same dimension as the living. Desiderio, though indifferent to the apparitions, finds himself visited nightly by a glass woman, the manifestation of Albertina, Hoffman’s daughter & Desiderio’s lover-to-be. Unlike Desiderio, many people go crazy in response to the apparitions. The city, severed from communication with the world, becomes a place of rampant insanity & crime, causing a state of emergency. Under the Minister of Determination's command, Desiderio goes undercover to assassinate Hoffman.

I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself . . . ' New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn. But this young Englishman's fate lies in the arid desert, where a many-breasted fertility goddess will wield her scalpel to transform him into the new Eve.

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 animals and incredible transformations. In these seven stories, bristling with frank, earthy humour and gothic imagination, nothing is as it seems.

Full of the wit and irreverence for which Carter is renowned

A collection of short stories and allegorical tales in settings ranging from Tokyo to strange, allegorical landscapes of the imagination.

Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape. There, beyond the wire fences, she will discover a decaying paradise, encounter the tattooed Barbarian boy Jewel and go beyond the darkest limits of her imagination. Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, Heroes and Villains is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy, literary allusion and twisted romance.

This devotional offers women a unique experience through daily love letters from God, inviting them into a deep, personal relationship with the Father. Each day features short meditations and scripture that foster a sense of joy and wonder. Readers are encouraged to engage in a two-way conversation by reflecting and recording their thoughts, making it a meaningful journey of faith. The intimate greeting, "Good Morning, Daughter!" sets a warm and welcoming tone for each day's exploration.

Folgen Sie Angela Carter in das neue Zeitalter, treffen Sie Fevvers, die Cockney-Venus, die berühmteste Trapezkünstlerin aller Zeiten, der ganz Europa - was sage ich, die ganze Welt zu Füßen liegt, intime Freundin von Toulouse-Lautrec, eine Suleika Dobson der Music Hall - und Jack, der ihr völlig verfallen ist. Treffen Sie Lizzie, die Hexe, und Samson, den starken Mann, die tanzenden Tiger (bei Tigern gibt Angela Carter immer ihr Bestes), den schüchternen Räuber, die gelehrten Affen des Monsieur Lamarck, die abessinische Prinzessin und Mignon, die nur singt, nie redet, den Großen Buffo und seine Clowns, den Schamanen, den Zirkusdirektor und Sibyl, sein wahrsagendes Schwein - und natürlich die Elefanten. Schließen Sie sich ihrem Zug durch das zaristische Russland an, folgen Sie Colonel Kearneys sensationellem Zirkus. Nichts wird danach sein wie zuvor.

Väter, Bestien, Werwölfe – die Frauen in Märchen haben seit jeher kein einfaches Los. In Angela Carters Kult-Nachdichtungen von etwa Blaubart, Der gestiefelte Kater oder Die Schöne und das Biest wird die traditionelle Rollenverteilung nicht nur umgekehrt, sondern in die Luft gejagt. Hier werden Frauen zu Tigerbräuten und Schöne zu Biestern, Erlkönige mit dem eigenen Haar erwürgt und Werwolfsgroßmütter von ihren Enkelinnen erledigt. Die Antiheldinnen und Heldinnen dieser Märchen sinnen in gleichem Maße auf Rache, wie sie nach Liebe streben. Angela Carter ist die Godmother der feministischen (Horror-)Literatur. Ihre abgründig-erotischen Neuerzählungen von Märchen bestechen auch mehr als fünfzig Jahre nach ihrem Erscheinen mit unvermittelter Wucht.