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...

"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....

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...

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