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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
$35.00 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
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
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
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies | 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
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
The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories by Angela Carter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Essays and Anthologies
From the liars of the fantastical and fabular and from the domains of the unconscious's mysteries...lie the brides in the Bloody Chamber - hunts unwillingly the Queen of the Vampires - slips Red Riding Hood into the arms of the Wolf - pimps our Puss-In-Boots for his lustful master. In tales that glitter ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
$36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICSBeautiful editions of great books to last a lifetimeA beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Good
We grow up on fairy tales but it is only later we realise what we have been fed. Angela Carter saw the power of these dark stories - stories in which objects betray, children threaten, men turn into animals and women are unsafe. Erotic, subversive, ancient, modern- the tales in this book pulse with a vi ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
Cover design by Jacqueline Groag 'This crazy world whirled about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked ...She was in the night again, and the doll was herself' One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's ...Show more
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