The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Title | The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Carter |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2016-09-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1784871435 |
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HELEN SIMPSON From familiar fairy tales and legends âe" Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves âe" Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "Bloody Chamber"
Title | A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "Bloody Chamber" PDF eBook |
Author | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Pages | 25 |
Release | 2016-07-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1410341690 |
A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "Bloody Chamber," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
The Bloody Chamber
Title | The Bloody Chamber PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Carter |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2015-05-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0143107615 |
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 Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "Erl-King"
Title | A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "Erl-King" PDF eBook |
Author | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Pages | 28 |
Release | 2016-07-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1410345335 |
A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "Erl-King," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves"
Title | A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves" PDF eBook |
Author | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Publisher | Gale, Cengage Learning |
Pages | 23 |
Release | |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 153584549X |
A Study Guide for Angela Carter's "The Company of Wolves", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Studentsfor all of your research needs.
Wise Children
Title | Wise Children PDF eBook |
Author | Angela Carter |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 2007-12-10 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780374530945 |
A comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. It contains as many sets of twins and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
The World's Wife
Title | The World's Wife PDF eBook |
Author | Carol Ann Duffy |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2001-04-09 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 057119995X |
Mrs Midas, Queen Kong, Mrs Lazarus, the Kray sisters, and a huge cast of others startle with their wit, imagination, lyrical intuition and incisiveness.