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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By Angela Carter

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| Paperback | 9780099588115

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Book Description

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.

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The solstice, the hinge of the year when things do not fit together as well as they should...

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EageReader said on Feb 24, 2010 | Add your feedback

this book was a little too sexual for my taste, but the stories are beautifully written. The different ways that the fairy tales are digested are interesting and rife with symbolism. worth rereading to "get" more of the meaning.

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rp said on Apr 26, 2008 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback