The Bloody Chamber

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 INTRODUCED BY HELEN SIMPSON

Product details

• Authors: Angela Carter, Carter Angela
• Assisted by: Helen Simpson (Introduction), Simpson Helen (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2023
• EAN: 9781784878689
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-868-9
• No. of pages: 214
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics Hardbacks; Vintage Quarterbound Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, FICTION / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION / Gothic, FICTION / Fantasy / Dragons & Mythical Creatures, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Fairy and Folk tales / Fairy tale retellings, Classic fiction: general and literary