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Description edit
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 Toyshop".
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“I will dress her in my own clothes, wind her up, send her back to perform the part of my father's daughter.”
The Tiger's Bride -
“The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.”
The Tiger's Bride -
“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”
Puss-in-Boots -
“They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, grey members of a congregation of nightmare; hark! his long wavering howl . . . an aria of fear made audible.”
The Company of Wolves
First Sentence edit
I remember how, that night, I lay awake in the wagon-lit in a tender, delicious ecstasy of excitement, my burning cheek pressed against the impeccable linen of the pillow and the pounding of my heart mimicking that of the great pistons ceaselessly thrusting the train that bore me through the night, away from Paris, away from girlhood, away from the white, enclosed quietude of my mother's apartment, into the unguessable country of marriage.
Table of Contents edit
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
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Endicott's Adult Fairy Tales Reading List. (community list)
This book is in Penguin Classic Deluxe Edition Book Covers. (community list)
This is book 165 of 200 in Newman and Jones 200 Best Horror Novels. (community list)
Preceded by Darkness Weaves, and followed by Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Applause Musical Library).
Authors & Contributors edit
- Angela Carter (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: New York
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 0060107081
Page Count: 164
Publisher: New York
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1980
ISBN: 0060107081
Page Count: 164
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
Subjects edit
- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › British › Short Stories
- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Fiction › Visionary Fiction
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Metaphysical
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
- Books › Literature & Fiction › Short Stories
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