The bloody chamber and other stories
by Angela Carter
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Familiar tales retold with a dark gothic twist, each tempered with a saucy wit and the ability to impart new meaning onto old standards. Heroines are erotic, independent and canny, and their victories contain a bite, an edge that places these tales outside the traditional happy ending. Stories are beautifully overblown and hyperreal, with a sly, subtle humour that tempers even the darkest tale. This world is very female, where the instigators of action and solvers of perilous events are mothers, daughters, wives and wild girls.
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The Bloody Chamber and other stories
2006, Penguin Random House UK
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Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
July 6, 2006, VINTAGE (RAND)
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0099588110 9780099588115
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The bloody chamber and other stories
1979, Gollancz, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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0575025840 9780575025844
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The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.
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