The Bloody Chamber

Zusatztext First published in hardback in 1979! this is one of Angela Carter's darkand erotic fairy tales. "She writes prose that lends itself to magnificentset pieces of fastidious sensuality" Ian McEwan. A Vintage title. Informationen zum Autor Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance , was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop , won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions , the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992. Helen Simpson's sixth short-story collection, Cockfosters , follows Four Bare Legs in a Bed (1990), Dear George (1995), Hey Yeah Right Get a Life (2000), Constitutional (2005) and In-Flight Entertainment (2010). A Bunch of Fives: Selected Stories (2012) includes five stories from each of her first five collections. She has received the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award. She lives in London. Klappentext First published in hardback in 1979, this is one of Angela Carter's dark and erotic fairy tales. "She writes prose that lends itself to magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality" Ian McEwan. A Vintage title. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Angela Carter, Carter Angela
• Assisted by: Helen Simpson (Introduction), Simpson Helen (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.07.1995
• EAN: 9780099588115
• ISBN: 978-0-09-958811-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; VINTAGE BOOKS; Vintage Magic; Vintage Classics; Vintage Magic
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short Stories, FICTION / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies, FICTION / Gothic, Classic fiction, 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