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9780099593881, titled "The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories" | Vintage Uk, October 2, 2014, cover price $10.15 | also contains The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
9780143119043 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 29, 2011), cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter's work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches...read more
By Lawrence Phillips (editor)

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9781441169280 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, October 11, 2012, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter's work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches.

Paperback:

9781472528520 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, February 27, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Bringing together leading international scholars of contemporary fiction and modern women writers, this book provides authoritative new critical readings of Angela Carter's work from a variety of innovative theoretical and disciplinary approaches.

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Product Description: Angela Carter, a prolific author who worked in numerous genres, remains one of the most important British writers of the last century. She was particularly renowned for her interrogation of cultural mythologies, which shape our lives but which we often leave unexamined...read more

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9780786461288 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 19, 2011, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Angela Carter, a prolific author who worked in numerous genres, remains one of the most important British writers of the last century.

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Product Description: Bursting at the seam with twins, secret identities, and performers at every level from Shakespeare to strip shows, Wise Children is a sweeping and riotous account of the intermingled Chance and Hazard families. Dora and her twin sister, Nora, are the daughters of Shakespearean actor Melchior Hazard and a maid at their South London boarding house...read more
By Eileen Atkins (narrator)

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9781934997321 | Abridged edition (Trafalgar Square Books, July 21, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Bursting at the seam with twins, secret identities, and performers at every level from Shakespeare to strip shows, Wise Children is a sweeping and riotous account of the intermingled Chance and Hazard families.

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Product Description: By the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had come to be regarded as one of the most successful and original British authors of the twentieth-century, and her writing has subsequently become the focus of a burgeoning body of criticism...read more

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9780333992937 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 17, 2006, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: By the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had come to be regarded as one of the most successful and original British authors of the twentieth-century, and her writing has subsequently become the focus of a burgeoning body of criticism.

Paperback:

9780230580985 | Palgrave Macmillan, June 15, 2009, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: By the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had come to be regarded as one of the most successful and original British authors of the twentieth-century, and her writing has subsequently become the focus of a burgeoning body of criticism.

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Nora and Dora Chance, the twin illegitimate daughters of a British theater legend, ring in their father's hundredth birthday by remembering the special family moments that forged the bond between them

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9780374291334 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 1992, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Nora and Dora Chance, the twin illegitimate daughters of a British theater legend, ring in their father's hundredth birthday by remembering the special family moments that forged the bond between them

Paperback:

9780374530945 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, December 10, 2007, cover price $15.00
9781405835633 | Prentice Hall, September 30, 2006, cover price $21.95
9780140175301 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 1993), cover price $14.00

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9780754001997 | Unabridged edition (Sterling Audio Books, October 1, 1998), cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Nora and Dora Chance, the twin illegitimate daughters of a British theater legend, ring in their father's hundredth birthday by remembering the special family moments that forged the bond between them.

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Product Description: Focusing on questions of intertextuality, authorship and representation, this book offers a re-examination of one of the twentieth century's most important British writers. A provocative collection both offers new readings of Carter's opus, and contributes to contemporary critical debates concerning gender, postmodernism and intertextual theory...read more
By Rebecca Munford (editor)

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9781403997050 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 14, 2006, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Focusing on questions of intertextuality, authorship and representation, this book offers a re-examination of one of the twentieth century's most important British writers.

Draws on de Sade's embodiments of women's two roles, Justine and Juliette, and on more contemporary models to argue that sexuality is a mode of power politics as well as a vital way to advance relationships admitting of neither conqueror nor conquered. Reprint.

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9781844083770 | Virago Pr, October 1, 2006, cover price $17.95
9780140298611 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, March 1, 2001), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Draws on de Sade's embodiments of women's two roles, Justine and Juliette, and on more contemporary models to argue that sexuality is a mode of power politics as well as a vital way to advance relationships admitting of neither conqueror nor conquered.

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Product Description: This guide gives readers of Angela Carter a sense of the variety and richness of her work. Her writing is amusing, ironic, and Gothic, providing a critique of the gender and power relations amongst which we live and through which we create our identities.

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9780340857380 | Headway, April 1, 2003, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: This guide gives readers of Angela Carter a sense of the variety and richness of her work.

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Malik Solanka, a middle-aged ex-philosophy professor and millionaire creator of a hugely popular doll, seeks refuge from his unwanted fame and disintegrating marriage in New York City, where his own seething fury is mirrored in an urban jungle seething with anger. By the author of The Satanic Verses. Reissue. 15,000 first printing.

Hardcover:

9780679463337 | Random House Inc, September 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Malik Solanka, a middle-aged ex-philosophy professor and millionaire creator of a hugely popular doll, seeks refuge from his unwanted fame and disintegrating marriage in New York City.

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9780679783503 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, August 1, 2002), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Malik Solanka, a middle-aged ex-philosophy professor and millionaire creator of a hugely popular doll, seeks refuge from his unwanted fame and disintegrating marriage in New York City.

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Product Description: "Sexuality is power," wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploited her sexuality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780860680550 | Little Brown Uk, August 1, 2000, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: "Sexuality is power," wrote the Marquis de Sade.
9780060907686 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, May 1, 1980), cover price $3.50 | About this edition: "Sexuality is power," wrote the Marquis de Sade.

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Product Description: Angela Carter's writings have been a source of pleasure, puzzlement, and controversy ever since she started publishing in the 1960s. Until her death in 1992, she was one of Britain's most exciting contemporary authors, particularly with her fantastical fictions and her feminist political essays on sex, gender, and class...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Alison Easton (editor)

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9780312231408 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 1, 2000, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Angela Carter's writings have been a source of pleasure, puzzlement, and controversy ever since she started publishing in the 1960s.

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Gathers the author's reviews of books and films, and essays on fashion, trends, travel, and art (view table of contents)

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9780140276954 | Penguin USA, December 1, 1998, cover price $39.00 | About this edition: Gathers the author's reviews of books and films, and essays on fashion, trends, travel, and art

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Product Description: This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition. The new angles and emphases that develop are partly from Carter's immersion in the changing intellectual debates of the times and, concurrently, arise from the reading she was doing at the different stages of her life, which stretched from the medieval through de Sade to Foucault...read more

Hardcover:

9780719053153 | Manchester Univ Pr, June 1, 1998, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: This study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition.

Paperback:

9780719053160 | Manchester Univ Pr, June 15, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This full scale study discusses Angela Carter's fiction in chronological order, and notes that although her themes are fairly consistent throughout her work, consistency of theme is not the same as repetition.

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Carter's heady first novel introduces one of her most enigmatic characters. Honeybuzzard spends his nights scavenging the contents of abandoned buildings and his days seducing and tormenting lovers, enemies, and friends. He and his best friend Morris scoour the backstreets of London, leaving behind a trail of detruction in the broken hearts and dashed hopes of those they love, manipulate, and ultimately discard.

Hardcover:

9781856952293 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, December 1, 1997), cover price $22.95

Paperback:

9780140255249 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 1996), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Carter's heady first novel introduces one of her most enigmatic characters.

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Product Description: This second edition reviews Carter's novels in the light of recent critical developments and offers entirely new perspectives on her work. There are now extended single chapters on Carter's most widely-studied novels, including The Passion of New Eve and Nights at the Circus, and discussion of the long essay "The Sadeian Woman...read more

Hardcover:

9780230202825 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 13, 2009), cover price $105.00 | About this edition: This second edition reviews Carter's novels in the light of recent critical developments and offers entirely new perspectives on her work.
9780312176266 | Palgrave Macmillan, November 15, 1997, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: At the time of her death in 1992, Angela Carter had become one of the most important and widely read British writers.
9780333676158 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, October 1, 1997, cover price $35.35 | About this edition: In this text, Linden Peach demonstrates how Angela Carter's fiction has retained the power to shock, move and make us laugh.

Paperback:

9780230202832 | 2 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, October 13, 2009), cover price $36.00 | About this edition: This second edition reviews Carter's novels in the light of recent critical developments and offers entirely new perspectives on her work.

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Hardcover:

9780582291928 | Longman Sc & Tech, June 1, 1997, cover price $70.00

Paperback:

9780582291911 | Taylor & Francis, September 1, 1997, cover price $58.95

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Product Description: A prolific writer in many genres, Angela Carter is best known for her novels and short stories. Widely taught for their intelligence and complexity, Carter's works are equally enjoyed for their humor and vitality. Alison Lee has focused on Carter's novels in this incisive and accessible volume...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780805778236 | Twayne Pub, May 1, 1997, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: A prolific writer in many genres, Angela Carter is best known for her novels and short stories.

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A complete collection of short stories by the late author of Fireworks draws on the realms of cinema, art, and the subconscious, reinventing such characters from fiction and folklore as Alice in Wonderland, Lizzie Borden, Mary Magdalen, and Beauty and the Beast. (view table of contents)
By Angela Carter and Salman Rushdie (introduced by)

Hardcover:

9780805044621 | Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Collects stories written by the late author such as 'The Bloody Chamber,' 'Our Lady of the Massacre,' and 'Saints and Strangers'

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Product Description: This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of acclaimed writer Angela Carter. Here, renowned writers and critics including Margaret Atwood, Robert Coover, Hermione Lee, and Marina Warner discuss the novels, stories and, polemics that made Carter one of the most spellbinding writers of her generation...read more
By Lorna Sage (editor)

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9781853817601 | Virago Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $16.99 | About this edition: This distinguished volume of essays commemorates the work of acclaimed writer Angela Carter.

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Product Description: Open up Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen and enter a fantastic world of fairy tales, a world of mischievous maids, wily women, enchantresses, midwives, and crones. Here is a treasure trove of tales that could only have been put together by the celebrated Angela Carter, whom Salman Rushdie called the "high sorceress" and the "benevolent witch queen" of English literature...read more
By Angela Carter (editor) and Corinna Sargood (illustrator)

Hardcover:

9780571198009 | Faber & Faber, April 1, 1993, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: Open up Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen and enter a fantastic world of fairy tales, a world of mischievous maids, wily women, enchantresses, midwives, and crones.

Paperback:

9780571198382 | Reprint edition (Faber & Faber, April 1, 1994), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Open up Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen and enter a fantastic world of fairy tales, a world of mischievous maids, wily women, enchantresses, midwives, and crones.

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