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Angela Carter's Book of Wayward Girls and Wicked Women by Angela Carter
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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: the w ...Show more
Heroes and Villains by Angela Carter
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 Prof ...Show more
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter
$17.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fictionFrom the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swanSophi Fevvers--the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
$15.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
We grow up on fairy tales but it is only later we realise what we have been fed. Angela Carter saw the power of these dark stories - stories in which objects betray, children threaten, men turn into animals and women are unsafe. Erotic, subversive, ancient, modern- the tales in this book pulse with a vi ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$24.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago modern classics
The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vmc Ser.
Cover design by Jacqueline Groag 'This crazy world whirled about her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds were mechanical and the few human figures went masked ...She was in the night again, and the doll was herself' One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop: A Virago Modern Classic by Angela Carter
$20.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
This Audible Exclusive adaptation of Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, is brought expertly to life by multi-award winning actress, Fiona Shaw. A coming of age tale which extends the nature and boundaries of love, as seen through the eyes of the youthful and na ve Melanie, The Magic Toyshop was enormou ...Show more
The Passion Of New Eve by Angela Carter
$24.00 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Virago modern classics
'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 ...Show more
Wise Children by Angela Carter
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy newnovel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identitiesas any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.
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