Angela Carter - Böcker

Om hunden kan sägas vara människans bästa vän, är katten tveklöst författarens. Och läsarnas! Kanske är det inte så konstigt: älskad och gåtfull utgör den inte bara ett fantastiskt sällskap, utan är också en enastående karaktär att bygga en histor...

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En av de stora brittiska efterkrigsförfattarna »Den mest oberoende och egensinniga engelska författaren någonsin.« Salman Rushdie Evelyn från London anländer till ett New York i sönderfall, i ett USA på randen till inbördeskrig. Universitetet där ...

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Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales woven in seductive, luminous storytelling. Beauty is turned into a Beast, Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch and, in the title story, a beautif...

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How to Analyse Texts is the essential introductory textbook and toolkit for language analysis. This book shows the reader how to undertake detailed, language-focussed, contextually sensitive analyses of a wide range of texts - spoken, written and ...

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A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves...

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I know it in my ancient water, that something will happen today... Today is the 75th birthday of identical twin sisters, Dora and Nora. And on this day their story begins, a richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the...

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'Her Imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WALKER, INDEPENDENT 'The way to Carter's visionary and lurid world' THE TIMES 'The darting, lyrical pen of Angela Carter, mistress of the erotic picaresque' KIRKUS REVIEWS 'I know ...

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In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love.

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'The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE 'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' OBSERVER 'She can glide from ancient to modern, from darkness to luminosity, f...

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Welcome to the circus - strange, dirty and shameless, this is the greatest show on Earth. Sophie Fevvers is a seductress, a braggart and an ariel performer in Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American jo...

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En av de stora brittiska efterkrigsförfattarna »Den mest oberoende och egensinniga engelska författaren någonsin.« Salman Rushdie¿ » Den magiska leksaksbutiken¿ lämnar en skarp och oroande eftersmak. Under den samtida ytan hörs ekon av bland andra...

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Utnämnd av BBC till en av de 100 mest inflytelserika romanerna någonsin. »Den mest oberoende och egensinniga engelska författaren - någonsin.« Salman Rushdie »En excentrisk roman, som utmanar både vad som ryms i en roman och i en människa.« Betyg:...

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A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains includes an introduction by Robert Coover in Penguin Modern Classics. Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of ...

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En av de stora brittiska efterkrigsförfattarna »Den mest oberoende och egensinniga engelska författaren någonsin.« Salman Rushdie »Den magiska leksaksbutiken lämnar en skarp och oroande eftersmak. Under den samtida ytan hörs ekon av bland andra Le...

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Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Ja...

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Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trappe...

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL COOKE Reading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you've ever had; a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to feminism to science fiction, and everything in between; a ...

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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIE 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 differe...

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Short and strange, this is a story about a dark and depraved love triangle: Annabel lives with both her young, beautiful husband, Lee, and his demonic brother, Buzz. Their cohabitation produces inescapable, dangerous emotional energy, contained wi...

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"Penguin Decades" bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define t...

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