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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784871437

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 222mm x 26mm x 144mm

  • Weight: 361g

  • RRP: £12.99

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

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.

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9781784871437

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 222mm x 26mm x 144mm

  • Weight: 361g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • Fairy tales reimagined for feminist times

    Grazia

  • She was, among other things, a quirky, original, and baroque stylist, a trait especially marked in The Bloody Chamber - her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity

    Margaret Atwood, Observer

  • Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality

    Ian McEwan

  • She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales

    The Times

  • The Bloody Chamber is such an important book to me. Angela Carter, for me, is still the one who said: ‘You see these fairy stories, these things that are sitting at the back of the nursery shelves? Actually, each one of them is a loaded gun. Each of them is a bomb. Watch: if you turn it right it will blow up.’ And we all went: ‘Oh my gosh, she’s right—you can blow things up with these!’

    Neil Gaiman, Daily Telegraph

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About the Author

Angela Carter

Angela Carter was born in 1940 of a Scottish father and Yorkshire mother. She read English at Bristol University, and after escaping an early marriage went to live in Japan for a number of years. She wrote nine novels, which blend fantasy, science fiction and gothic, and is often referred to as a writer of magic realism. She died in 1992. Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American author and professor in the Literary Arts program at Brown University. He is one of America's pioneering postmodernists. Coover currently splits his time between the USA and London.

Angela Carter

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