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

A propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Angela Carter, Carter Angela
• Collaboration: Helen Simpson (Introduction), Simpson Helen (Introduction)
• Edition: Vintage UK
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 05.10.2023
• EAN: 9781784878689
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-868-9
• Pages: 214
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 205 mm x 20 mm
• Thèmes: Vintage Classics Hardbacks; Vintage Quarterbound Classics
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); 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