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Den nya Evas passion
Inbunden, 2018
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
24 kr
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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 han fått anställning visar sig vara ockuperat. I en …
Passion Of New Eve
Häftad, 1982
144 kr
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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 nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, …
Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Häftad, 1995
139 kr
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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 beautiful young pianist is swept into the world of a rich …
The Magic Toyshop
Häftad, 1981
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130 kr
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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 …
Nights at the Circus
Häftad, 2025
127 kr
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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 journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind …
Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
A special edition of the feminist cult classic
Inbunden, 2023
209 kr
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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 - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection …
Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Häftad, 2015
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207 kr
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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 …
Sadeian Woman
An Exercise in Cultural History
Häftad, 2006
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147 kr
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'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' NEW STATESMAN 'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN 'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT 'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de …
Souvenir of Japan
Häftad, 2026
136 kr
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Five stories of desire and discovery set in 1970s Japan, from weird fiction's most influential pioneer - Angela CarterAn Englishwoman muses on her affair with a younger Japanese man. A spurned lover seeks intimacy in another chance encounter. A boy stumbles upon a mirror world while walking in the …
Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women
Häftad, 2016
144 kr
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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: …
Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Häftad, 2008
273 kr
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Wise Children
Häftad, 1992
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139 kr
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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 Hazards and the Chances. It is in fact, the 23rd …
Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
Häftad, 2008
149 kr
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In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. Angela Carter came across Perrault's work and set out to adapt the stories for modern readers of English. In breathing new life into …
Magic Toyshop
Häftad, 2018
144 kr
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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, from depravity to comedy without any hint of strain …
American Ghosts & Old World Wonders
Häftad, 1994
179 kr
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Shortly before her death Angela Carter was preparing this volume of short stories, one which does full justice to the glory of her imagination and the range of her talent. It is divided into distinct parts. The first comprises a group of stories inspired by America: Lizzie Borden visits a circus; a …
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Selected Writings
Häftad, 1993
179 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCKAngela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and essayist.This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers more than a decade of her thought and ranges …
Nights at the Circus
Häftad, 1994
139 kr
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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. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to …
Burning Your Boats
Collected Short Stories
Häftad, 1996
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152 kr
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIEAs 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 …
Love
Häftad, 1997
139 kr
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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 within two rooms. Annabel is a fearful, ethereal artist …
Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Stories
Av Various, Angela Carter
Häftad, 1989
363 kr
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Heroes and Villains
Häftad, 2011
152 kr
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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 steel and concrete with her father and the other …
Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
Häftad, 2011
152 kr
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Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of …
