The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
  • Published: 31 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781409015369
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

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20 Dec 2023
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31 Oct 2012
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Fairy tales retold and interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling.

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

Featuring an introduction from award-winning short story writer Helen Simpson
  • Published: 31 October 2012
  • ISBN: 9781409015369
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176
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About the author

Angela Carter

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.

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Praise for The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

The Bloody Chamber's interweaving of retold fairy tales demonstrates Angela Carter's narrative gift at its most mocking and seductive

Observer

Extraordinary and beautiful

Peter Redgrove

Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality

Ian McEwan

She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales

The Times
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