The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories - Vintage Classics Most Red Series

Összefoglaló

Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales woven in seductive, luminous storytelling.<BR><BR>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 and sinister aristocrat, a man whose previous three wives have all died in mysterious circumstances.<BR><BR>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 of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.<BR><BR>'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality' Ian McEwan<BR><BR>'A quirky, original, and baroque stylist' Margaret Atwood<BR><BR>With an introduction from award-winning short story writer Helen Simpson