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1	Passion of the New Eve more books like this by Angela Carter 'I know nothing. I am a tabula erasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself...New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.64!
2	The Bloody Chamber more books like this by Angela Carter Tales and legends--from Robin Hood to werewolves, retold in Angels Carter's own dark and fantastic style, demonstrate the ways in which women have been victims of men. see all copies from $4.50! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Nights at the Circus more books like this by Angela Carter 'Angela Carter has influenced a whole generation of fellow writers towards dream worlds of baroque splendour, fairy tale horror, and visions of the alienated wreckage of a future world. In "Nights at the Circus" she has invented a new, raunchy, raucous, Cockney voice for her heroine Fevvers, taking us back into a rich, turn of the 19th century ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.76! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Magic Toyshop more books like this by Angela Carter 'This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few human figures went masked...She was in the night once again, and the doll was herself.' Melanie walks in the midnight garden, wearing her mother's wedding dress; naked she climbs the apple tree in the black of the moon. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Wise Children more books like this by Angela Carter A richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy new novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England more books like this by Jack Zipes This anthology of feminist fairy tales and critical essays acts as an example of how the literature of fantasy and imagination can be harnessed to create a new view of the world. It demonstrates how recent writers have changed the aesthetic constructs and social content of fairy tales to reflect cultural change since the 1960s in area of gender ... see all copies from $4.00! new only from $26.43! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman more books like this by Angela Carter The story of a war fought against the diabolic Doctor Hoffman, who wanted to demolish the structures of reason and liberate man from the chains of the reality principle for ever. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.07! \| first editions
8	Saints and Strangers more books like this by Angela Carter Tales based on American history, literary legend, and folktale, including Lizzie Borden with her axe and Edgar Allen Poe with his black star. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.89! \| first editions
9	The bloody chamber and other stories more books like this by Angela Carter 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. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.33! \| first editions
10	Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Stories more books like this by Angela Carter (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings more books like this by Angela Carter 'In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South London are followed by highly individual ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.13! \| signed copies
12	Black Venus more books like this by Angela Carter A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from the author's imagination. She also wrote "Nights at the Circus", "The Magic Toyshop" and "Shadow Dance". see all copies from $3.96! new only from $7.22! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Sea-cat and Dragon King more books like this by Angela Carter This is a magical story of the love between mother and child and the gifts of kindness and understanding. Dragon King and Sea-Cat both live under the sea. Sea-Cat lives with his mother who sews him fabulous jewel-encrusted suits that shimmer and capture the attention of all who see him. Dragon King, the ruler, lives a sad and lonely life as he is ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.99! \| first editions
14 view cover	Love more books like this by Angela Carter Annabel,an artist adrift in the political and sexual crosscurrents of the 1960s and the whirling undertow of her mind,falls into marriage with blithely adulterous lee and his dangerous brother buzz. Even in the cocoon of an english university town,their relationship evolves into obsession, betrayal,deceit,voyeurism,violence and suicide. This is ... see all copies from $2.34! new only from $6.50! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Passion of New Eve more books like this by Angela Carter This story follows Evelyn, a young Englishman, along a journey through mythology and sexuality. It is a story of how he learns to be a woman, first in the brutal hands of Zero, the ragtime Nietzsche, then through the ancient Tristessa, the beautiful ghost of Hollywood past. see all copies from $8.00! first editions
16	Burning your boats : complete short stories more books like this by Angela Carter As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers, and a couple of the volumes are now out of print. In "Burning your Boats," they are gathered for the first time; this is a key ... see all copies from $11.92! new only from $11.92! \| first editions
17 view cover	Fireworks more books like this by Angela Carter Here is the ritualism of Tokyo where lovers ponder the intangible reflections of themselves, 'reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming', and 'the velvet nights spaked with menace' of a wasted London, poised on the brink of destruction. In these extraordinary tales Angela Carter pinpoints the symbolism of the city ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.64! \| first editions
18 view cover	Virago Book of Fairy Tales more books like this by Angela Carter These two collections of little-known stories from Europe, the Arctic, the USA, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, contain tales of alluring women, ailing warriors, enchantresses and seekers of revenge. The heroines are always centre stage, as large as life, or even larger. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.64! \| first editions
19 view cover	Wayward Girls & Wicked W more books like this by Angela Carter Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Djuna Barnes, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all with one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as role models for all women. Elizabeth Jolley celebrates that rare ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.37! \| first editions
20 view cover	Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories more books like this by Angela Carter This collection of stories includes six previously unpublished tales. see all copies from $5.01! new only from $7.50! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Strange things sometimes still happen : fairy tales from around the world more books like this by Angela Carter This treasure trove of 45 fairy tales, collected by acclaimed author Carter, represents 23 different cultures. Embracing the wicked, the funny, and the downright bizarre, the stories consistently reflect Carter's long-standing passion for the female-dominated tradition of tale-telling, reveling in women's wisdom and wile. Illustrated with woodcuts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $39.00! \| first editions
22	Comic and Curious Cats by Angela Carter, Martin Leman (Illustrator) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Shadow Dance more books like this by Angela Carter '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 moonlight on daisies, a month ago.' And yet the men still hover around her, more out of curiosity than ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.74! \| first editions
24 view cover	Heroes and Villains more books like this by Angela Carter see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	Several perceptions more books like this by Angela Carter Centre stage in Angela Carter's unruly tale of the Flower Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel without a cause. A self-styled nihilist whose girlfriend has abandoned him, Joseph has decided to give up existing. But his concerned friends and neighbours have other plans. In an effort to join in the spirit of protest which ... see all copies from $5.50! new only from $7.43! \| first editions

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