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This title comes with an introduction by Helen Simpson. 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.
| ISBN | 0099588110 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | | ISBN13 | 9780099588115
(What's this?) | | Pages | 176 | | Publisher | Vintage | | Weight (grammes) | 134 | | Imprint | Vintage Classics | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Previous ISBN | 9780099529590 | | Publication date | 03 Jan 1998 | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Reissue date | 06 Jul 2006 | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Non-book description | B | | Spine width (mm) | 12 | | Writer of introduction | Helen Simpson | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 823.914 | |
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'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality' Ian McEwan 'Angela Carter has extended the life and richness of the fable form itself partly through language that is both pellucid and sensual, but chiefly through imagination of such Ariel reach that she can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain and without losing the elusive power of the original tales' The Times 'The Bloody Chamber's interweaving of retold fairy tales demonstrates Angela Carter's narrative gift at its most mocking and seductive' Observer 'Extraordinary and beautiful' Peter Redgrove  Be the first to write a customer review
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