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From reflections on jazz and Japan through vigorous refashionings of classic fairy tales to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its tawdry glory, Burning Your Boats charts the evolution of Angela Carter's marvelous magic vision in a volume that assembles her considerable legacy of short... read more
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The Bloody Chamber
by Angela Carter (Author)A reissue of a collection of short stories first published ten years ago. They include "The Company of Wolves", on which the prize-winning film of the same name was based. Angela Carter is the author of "Nights at the Circus" and "The Magic...
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Saints and Strangers
by Angela Carter (Author)Carter's short stories demand a certain amount of complicity; they echo and reverberate for the reader who has some knowledge of Edgar Allan Poe, of Baudelaire, of Lizzie Borden, of myth and folktale. In "The Fall River Axe Murders" the reader...
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Characters/People edit
- Johnny: Add a description of this character.
- Roxana
- Teresa
- Lizzie
- Letty
- Herm
- Jameson
- Annabella
- Melissa
- Jeanne
- Peter
- Emma
- Lola
- Dr Dee
- Edgar
- Ned Kelly
- Madame Schreck
- Mary Magdalene
- Geoff
- Ashputtle
- Mendoza
- Bridget
- Nelson
- Madeline
- Simeon
- John Ford
- Mama
- Jean-yves
- Tamburlaine
- Mr Allan
- Miss Russell
- Gretchen
- Henry
- Emile
- Jason
- Hiroko
- Daisy
- Dubois
- Tom
- Duke
- Hank Mann
- Twankey
First Sentence edit
All artists, they say, are a little mad.
Table of Contents edit
Introduction by Salman Rushdie
EARLY WORK, 1962-6
The Man Who Loved a Double Bass
A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home
A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)
FIREWORKS: NINE PROFANE PIECES, 1974
A Souvenir of Japan
The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter
The Loves of Lady Purple
The Smile of Winter
Penetrating the Heart of the Forest
Flesh and the Mirror
Master
Reflections
Elegy for a Freelance
THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES, 1979
The Bloody Chamber
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
The Tiger's Bride
Puss-in-Boots
The Erl-King
The Snow Child
The Lady of the House of Love
The Werewolf
The Company of Wolves
Wolf-Alice
BLACK VENUS, 1985
Black Venus
The Kiss
Our Lady of the Massacre
The Cabinet of Edgar Allen Poe
Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night's Dream
Peter and the Wolf
The Kitchen Child
The Fall River Axe Murders
AMERICAN GHOSTS AND OLD WORLD WONDERS, 1993
Lizzie's Tiger
John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Gun for the Devil
The Merchant of Shadows
The Ghost Ships
In Pantoland
Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost
Alice in Prague or The Curious Room
Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene
UNCOLLECTED STORIES, 1970-81
The Scarlet House
The Snow Pavilion
The Quilt Maker
APPENDIX Afterworld to Fireworks
FIRST PUBLICATIONS
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Endicott's Adult Fairy Tales Reading List. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Angela Carter (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Salman Rushdie (Introduction)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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