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A special edition of the feminist cult classic

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

The Angela Carter BBC Radio Drama Collection

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The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks

Fireworks

Collected Journalism and Writings

Shaking A Leg

Collected Dramatic Works

The Curious Room

Wise Children

Nights at the Circus

Selected Writings

Expletives Deleted

Love

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Burning Your Boats

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Burning Your Boats brings together her four volumes of short fiction...They testify to Carter's range, daring and her invention. An important book

A writer cultured in every sense of the word, whose syntax is ever artful, whose vocabulary is zestfully arcane, whose erudition manifests itself in her work in a shimmering play of parody and illusion. She was one of the century's best writers, and her stories are among her finest works

This is the voice the young generation are flocking to read and study, and these marvellous collected stories wonderfully explain why no pigeon-hole could ever contain her creator. When you read all the stories collected together, a sense of joy erupts that such writing can exist

World-class stories, woven from their author's high humour, glittering imagination, vital erudition and warm intelligence

Collected Short Stories

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 volumes are now out of print. In Burning your Boats they are gathered for the first time; this is a key collection and a major event for Angela Carter aficionados.

The essential collection of short stories by a daring, joyful writer

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.

Burning Your Boats

Collected Short Stories

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