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The bloody chamber and other stories

A collection of ten fantasy stories by Angela Carter.

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Main Author: Carter, Angela, 1940-1992
Other Authors: Link, Kelly
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Classics, [1979], 2015.
Edition:75th anniversary [ed.].
Subjects:
Fantasy fiction.
Short stories.
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Summary:A collection of ten fantasy stories by Angela Carter.
Item Description:Penguin Classics deluxe edition
Physical Description:xiv, 162 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN:9780143107613
0143107615
Author Notes:A powerful and disturbing writer, Angela Carter created haunting fiction about travelers surviving their passage through a disintegrating universe. Often based on myth or fairy tale-borrowed or invented for the occasion-her work evokes the most powerful aspects of sexuality and selfhood, of life and death, of apocalypse.

Carter's most successful novels include The Magic Toyshop (1967), which received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Several Perceptions (1968), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. The Passion of New Eve (1977), a story of the end of the world and its possible new beginning with failed mankind replaced by a self-generating womankind. She translated many fairy tales and wrote several collections of short stories, including The Bloody Chamber (1979) which won the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award and was the basis for the powerful movie A Company of Wolves. She worked as a journalist and as a professor at Brown and the University of Texas. She published two nonfiction books of interest: Nothing Sacred, selected writings, and The Sadeian Woman (1979).

(Bowker Author Biography)

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