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The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories Paperback - 1990
by Carter, Angela
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Details
- Title The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories
- Author Carter, Angela
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition UsedGood
- Pages 128
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date January 1, 1990
- Bookseller's Inventory # 5D400000BFGZ_ns
- ISBN 9780140178210 / 014017821X
- Weight 0.2 lbs (0.09 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.3 x 0.4 in (19.56 x 13.46 x 1.02 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Fairy tales, Short stories, English
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Summary
From familiar fairy tales and legends – Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires, werewolves – Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.
From the publisher
First line
I remember how, that night, I lay awake in the wagon-lit in a tender, delicious ecstasy of excitement, my burning cheek pressed against the impeccable linen of the pillow and the pounding of my heart mimicking that of the great pistons ceaselessly thrusting the train that bore me through the night, away from Paris, away from girlhood, away from the white, enclosed quietude of my mother's apartment, into the unguessable country of marriage.