The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as...

* Full of the wit and irreverence for which Carter is renowned von Carter, Angela

From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, a startling tale of the redemptive power of physical and emotional love One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next...

THE PASSION OF NEW EVE is an extraordinary journey into the apocalyptic vision of the author Lorna Sage called 'The boldest of English writers'. von Carter, Angela

"Die infernalischen Traummaschinen des Doktor Hoffman: Roman" von Angela Carter ist eine surreale und fantasievolle Geschichte, die sich in einer Stadt abspielt, die unter dem Einfluss der Traummaschinen des mysteriösen Dr. Hoffman...

'She was, among other things, a quirky, original, and baroque stylist . . . her vocabulary a mix of finely tuned phrase, luscious adjective, witty aphorism, and hearty, up-theirs vulgarity' Margaret Atwood, Observer'Angela Carter was a...

"Wise Children" von Angela Carter ist ein lebendiger und humorvoller Roman, der die Geschichte der ungleichen Zwillinge Dora und Nora Chance erzählt. Die Schwestern sind Teil einer Theaterdynastie in London und feiern ihren 75....

In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora--unacknowledged daughters of Sir Melchior Hazard, the greatest Shakespearean actor of his day--were known as the Lucky...

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories von Carter, Angela

Opened at London's Lyric Hammersmith in 2006. von Carter, Angela

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...

'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...