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Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
$22.99 AUD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the w ...Show more
Fireworks by Angela Carter
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Category: classics
'I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter's first major achievement in the short-story form. Lush imaginary forests, a mur ...Show more
Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings by Angela Carter
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Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South L ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Magic Ser.
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 worewolf -- The company of wolves -- Wolf-Alice.
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago modern classics | Reading Level: very good
The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE
The Passion Of New Eve by Angela Carter
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Category: Classics | Series: Virago modern classics | Reading Level: very good
'I know nothing. I am a tabula erasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself...New York has become the City of Dreadful ...Show more
The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter
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Category: Social Thought | Series: VMC
'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all te ...Show more
Wise Children by Angela Carter
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
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