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Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter's pick of Mother Goose's feathers.'Trumps Grimm, with a world-wide selection of savage and funny stories' Observer
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Nights at the Circus
Nights at the Circus is a glorious enchantment. But an enchantment which is rooted in an earthy, rich and powerful language...It is a spell-binding achievement—Literary ReviewA glorious piece of work, a set-piece studded with set-pieces. The narrative has a splendid ripe momentum, and each descriptive touch contributes a pang of vividness. By doing possible things impossibly well, the book achieves a major enchantment—Times Literary SupplementA mistress-piece of sustained and weirdly wonderful Gothic that's both intensely amusing and also provocatively serious. This is a big, superlatively imagined novel—ObserverA remarkable book by any standards—Guardian
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Heroes and Villains
Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and other Professors. Outside, where land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape.
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
A special edition of the feminist cult classicAngela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965, followed by the Magic Toyshop in 1967, which went on to win the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She wrote a further four novels, together with three collections of Short Stories, two works of non-fiction and a volume of collected writings. Angela Carter died in 1992.
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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.
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Love
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGERLove is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. This revised edition has lost none of Angela Carter's haunting power to evoke the ebb of the 1960s, and includes an afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the anguish of middle age.
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Wise Children
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHA richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
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Nights at the Circus
Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake?Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus.
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Circusnachten
Aan het einde van de negentiende eeuw, een bewogen tijdperk van vervlogen dromen en nieuwe hoop, vertelt trapeze-artieste Fere haar levensverhaal aan journalist Jack Walser. Hoe zij gevonden werd door de prostituee Lizzie en opgroeide in een bordeel, hoe haar vleugels groeiden en hoe zij leerde vliegen. Hoe zij de lieveling werd van het publiek in heel Europa, en hoe prinsen en grote kunstenaars haar het hof maakten. Jack raakt zo gefascineerd door Fere en haar bizarre wereld dat hij met het circus meetrekt van Londen naar het legendarische Sint-Petersburg en ondertussen de meest fantastische avonturen beleeft.
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A Souvenir of Japan
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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The Magic Toyshop
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Nights at the Circus
€ 17,50