Es 23 de abril, fecha de nacimiento de Shakespeare, y las gemelas Dora y Nora Chance, actrices y coristas de segunda fila, se disponen a celebrar sus setenta y cinco años. Suena el timbre: en una tarjeta blanca llega la invitación a la fiest...
Recuperamos en edición rústica una de las mejores y más célebres obras de Angela Carter, un clásico imprescindible sobre el rito de paso de la adolescencia a la madurez
cockney de fama mundial: dice haber nacido de un huevo y se rumorea que las alas que luce en su espectáculo son auténticas, y que incluso sus huesos son huecos como los de las aves. ¿Cómo, si no, podría ser trapecista...
Un clásico imprescindible sobre el despertar a la sexualidad y a la rebeldía femenina, que generación tras generación es redescubierto por lectores en todo el mundo.
Barbazul, Caperucita Roja, la Bella y la Bestia, el Gato con Botas. Preocupada por cuestiones de género y por la tradición y los mecanismos narrativos de los cuentos de hadas, Angela Carter «revisita» con una sensibil...
Llegir Angela Carter (1940-1992) és com arribar a la plaça el dia de la revolució. A partir d?aquí, tot salta pels aires. L?amor rabiós, el sexe, el poder, l?animalitat, les portes falses del circ i les profunditats del...
Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in...
In The Bloody Chamber , Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet...
For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural's most celebrated book-featuring a new introduction by Kelly Link, the author of the national bestseller The Book of Love and the Pulitzer Prize finalist...
In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. Angela Carter came across Perrault's work and set out to adapt the stories for modern...
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Little Red Riding Hood. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Bluebeard. The Fairies. Many classic fairy tale characters might not have survived into the present were it not for Charles Perrault, a seventeenth-century French civil servant who rescued...
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Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional war between a young woman, her husband and his disruptive brother as they move through a labyrinth of betrayal, alienation...
As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers, and a couple of the volumes are...
A 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...
"She can glide froma ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, form depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales" The Times. - From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding...