"Helden und Schurken" von Angela Carter ist ein Roman, der sich mit den Themen Gut und Böse auseinandersetzt. Die Geschichte spielt in einer dystopischen Welt, in der die Grenzen zwischen Helden und Schurken verschwimmen. Der...

Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several...

„Das Haus des Puppenmachers“ von Angela Carter ist ein faszinierender Roman, der die Leser in eine geheimnisvolle und düstere Welt entführt. Die Geschichte dreht sich um einen exzentrischen Puppenmacher, der in einem abgelegenen Haus...

'Neither ordinary nor timid. The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' Hermione Lee'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous...

Väter, Bestien, Werwölfe – die Frauen in Märchen haben seit jeher kein einfaches Los. In Angela Carters Kult-Nachdichtungen von etwa Blaubart, Der gestiefelte Kater oder Die Schöne und das Biest wird die traditionelle Rollenverteilung...

Angela Carter's absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories, exclusive to "Vintage Classics". von Carter, Angela

The scar drew her whole face sideways and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lop-sided, skin, features and all, dragged away from the bone. She was a beautiful girl, a white and golden girl, like...

In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love. von Carter, Angela

* This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners - reissued in a HB edition as a companion to Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales von Carter, Angela

Angela Carter was born in 1940 and read English at Bristol University, before spending two years living in Japan. She lived and worked extensively in the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965,...

Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' Observer von Carter, Angela

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction From 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-swan Sophi...