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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (Vintage Quarterbound Classics)
[Hardback - 2023]
angela carter
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Classics - Collector's Editions
Publisher: Vintage Classics Uk | ISBN: 9781784878689 | Pages: 240
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A 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, 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

VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful

INTRODUCED BY HELEN SIMPSON

About the Author

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.

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