Black Venus The kiss Our lady of the massacre The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe Overture and incidental music for A midsummer night's dream Peter and the wolf The kitchen child The Fall River axe murders - American ghosts and old world wonders, 1993. Lyon The tiger's bride Puss-in-boots The Erl-King The snow child The lady of the house of love The werewolf The company of wolves Wolf-Alice - Black Venus, 1985. A souvenir of Japan The executioner's beautiful daughter The loves of Lady Purple The smile of winter Penetrating to the heart of the forest Flesh and the mirror Master Reflections Elegy for a freelance - The bloody chamber and other stories, 1979. The man who loved a double bass A very, very great lady and her son at home A Victorian fable (with glossary) - Fireworks : nine profane pieces, 1974. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Early work, 1962-6. But they are also our treasure to savour and hoard. The stories in this volume are the measure of our loss.
For writers, these are the cruelest deaths: in midsentence, so to speak. And said Salman Rushdie: "She died at the height of her powers. "Her imagination was one of the most dazzling of this century," wrote Marina Warner when Angela Carter died at age fifty-one. Acclaimed as "the poet of the short story," ANGELA CARTER (1940-1992) lived in England, the United States (she taught widely on both coasts), Japan, and Australia.
Among the treasures of this masterly collection: a young Lizzie Borden visits the circus a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a flyblown Southern brothel an earnest student is taken on a gothic ride through the ambiguous residue of Hollywood's golden age Alice is transmuted by a crazed fruit-grower in Prague and Mary Magdalene steps out of Renaissance canvases, transfigured by wilderness and solitude. Angela Carter's major preoccupations - violence in the wild and at home fairy stories, ancient and new magic, fabulous and quotidian the frailty and mystery of the flesh and the strength of the spirit - are all examined in startling relief. From early reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of vampires and werewolves, to stunning snapshots of reallife outcasts and the glorious but tainted world of "the rich and famous," this complete collection of Angela Carter's short stories gathers together four published books - Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus, American Ghosts and Old World Wonders - with her early work and uncollected stories.
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