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Sea-Cat and Dragon King by Angela Carter
$14.95 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Reading Level: From 7 To 99
Sea-Cat lives at the bottom of the sea with his mother. And his mother loves him very much. In order to keep him warm and dry, Mother Cat knits Sea-Cat the most beautiful clothes and soon Sea-Cat comes to the attention of the rather grim and grey Dragon King. He wants to be as beautiful as Sea-Cat. He w ...Show more
Shaking a Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings by Angela Carter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This title comes 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 person with an entirely unpredictable t ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Bryony Lavery's new stage adaptation of Angela Carter's story.When a 17 year old virgin marries a mature and charismatic Marquis it seems like a fairy tale. But when the Marquis is called away on their wedding night, leaving her only her only his keys and a single instruction, her curiosity leads her to ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories by Angela Carter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the liars of the fantastical and fabular and from the domains of the unconscious's mysteries...lie the brides in the Bloody Chamber - hunts unwillingly the Queen of the Vampires - slips Red Riding Hood into the arms of the Wolf - pimps our Puss-In-Boots for his lustful master. In tales that glitter ...Show more
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: Good
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 Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault by Angela Carter
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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. This book adapts the stories for modern readers of English.
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 cannibals, ...Show more
The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Penguin Decades) by Angela Carter
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Decades
"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 their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of ...Show more
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
$27.98 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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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 Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: VMC
'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all te ...Show more
The Sadeian Woman - Virago 50th Anniversary Edition by Angela Carter
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Virago Modern Classics Ser.
'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 Sade, philosophe ...Show more