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1	The Bloody Chamber more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist Tales and legends--from Robin Hood to werewolves, retold in Angels Carter's own dark and fantastic style, demonstrate the ways in which women have been victims of men. see all copies from £6.19! new only from £8.36! \| first editions
2	Nights at the Circus more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist 'Angela Carter has influenced a whole generation of fellow writers towards dream worlds of baroque splendour, fairy tale horror, and visions of the alienated wreckage of a future world. In "Nights at the Circus" she has invented a new, raunchy, raucous, Cockney voice for her heroine Fevvers, taking us back into a rich, turn of the 19th century ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.08! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The bloody chamber and other stories more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist 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. see all copies from £3.33! new only from £4.52! \| first editions
4	The Passion of the New Eve more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist '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 Night where dissolute Leilah performs a ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.76!
5	Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist This collection of stories includes six previously unpublished tales. see all copies from £7.59! new only from £9.60! \| first editions
6	Magic Toyshop more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist 'This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few human figures went masked...She was in the night once again, and the doll was herself.' Melanie walks in the midnight garden, wearing her mother's wedding dress; naked she climbs the apple tree in the black of the moon. ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.55! \| first editions
7	Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England more books like this by Professor Jack Zipes add to wishlist This anthology of feminist fairy tales and critical essays acts as an example of how the literature of fantasy and imagination can be harnessed to create a new view of the world. It demonstrates how recent writers have changed the aesthetic constructs and social content of fairy tales to reflect cultural change since the 1960s in area of gender ... see all copies from £2.91! new only from £19.50! \| first editions
8	Wise Children more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist In Angela Carter's last novel, the twins Dora and Nora Chance, whose family dominates the British stage, become music hall stars. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.01! \| first editions
9	Burning Your Boats more books like this by Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie (Introduction by) add to wishlist This collection of stories includes six previously unpublished tales. see all copies from £6.02! new only from £8.14! \| first editions
10	The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book more books like this by Angela Carter (Editor) add to wishlist Sixty tales gathered from around the world--Europe, the United States, the Arctic, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The only thing these selections have in common is a female protagonist, and they range from familiar ("Little Red Riding Hood") to less well-known stories such as the Appalachian tall tales. B&w illustrations throughout. see all copies from £6.13! new only from £8.48! \| first editions
11 view cover	Saints and Strangers more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist Tales based on American history, literary legend, and folktale, including Lizzie Borden with her axe and Edgar Allen Poe with his black star. see all copies from £5.32! new only from £5.51! \| first editions
12 view cover	Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault more books like this by Angela Carter, Professor Jack Zipes (Introduction by) add to wishlist Ten beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter 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 them from the oral tradition and committed them to paper. Three centuries later, Angela Carter, widely ... see all copies from £5.14! new only from £5.14!
13 view cover	Heroes and Villains more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.16! \| first editions
14 view cover	Love more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist Annabel,an artist adrift in the political and sexual crosscurrents of the 1960s and the whirling undertow of her mind,falls into marriage with blithely adulterous lee and his dangerous brother buzz. Even in the cocoon of an english university town,their relationship evolves into obsession, betrayal,deceit,voyeurism,violence and suicide. This is ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £4.47! \| first editions
15 view cover	Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist '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 London are followed by highly individual ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £14.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist The story of a war fought against the diabolic Doctor Hoffman, who wanted to demolish the structures of reason and liberate man from the chains of the reality principle for ever. see all copies from £1.25! new only from £6.78! \| first editions
17 view cover	Sea-cat and Dragon King more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist Sea-Cat lives at the bottom of the sea with his mother. And his mother loves him very much. In order to keep him warm and dry, Mother Cat knits Sea-Cat the most beautiful clothes and soon Sea-Cat comes to the attention of the rather grim and grey Dragon King. He wants to be as beautiful as Sea-Cat. He wants to have such fine clothes. And soon a ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £2.79! \| first editions
18 view cover	The curious room. more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist This collection of Carter's dramatic writing offers radio plays, an opera and pieces for stage and screen. It includes the screenplays for "The Magic Toyshop" and "The Company of Wolves"; a draft for an opera of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando"; and reworkings for radio of "Puss in Boots" and "Dracula". see all copies from £14.55! new only from £65.61! \| first editions
19	Black Venus more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from the author's imagination. She also wrote "Nights at the Circus", "The Magic Toyshop" and "Shadow Dance". see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.48! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist see all copies from £8.36! first editions
21 view cover	Wayward Girls & Wicked W more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all with one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as role models for all women. Elizabeth Jolley celebrates that rare ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £6.48!
22 view cover	Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Stories more books like this by Angela Carter (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £1.39! new only from £9.60! \| first editions
23 view cover	Strange things sometimes still happen : fairy tales from around the world more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist This treasure trove of 45 fairy tales, collected by acclaimed author Carter, represents 23 different cultures. Embracing the wicked, the funny, and the downright bizarre, the stories consistently reflect Carter's long-standing passion for the female-dominated tradition of tale-telling, reveling in women's wisdom and wile. Illustrated with woodcuts. see all copies from £5.57! new only from £10.51! \| first editions
24	Burning your boats : complete short stories more books like this by Angela Carter add to wishlist 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 now out of print. In "Burning your Boats," they are gathered for the first time; this is a key ... see all copies from £3.44! new only from £6.57! \| first editions
25	Fireworks: Nine Stories in Various Disguises by Angela Carter add to wishlist see all copies from £5.57! new only from £42.27! \| first editions

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