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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 Chances, with private lives as colorful and erratic as their careers. But now, at age 75, Dora is typing up their life story, and it is a tale indeed that Angela Carter tells. A writer known for the richness of her imagination and wit as well as her feminist insights into matters large and small, she created in Wise Children an effervescent family saga that...

Drawing on American history, literary legend, and folk tale, Angela Carter transports us to that shadowy country between fact and myth in this book of short stories.

Lizzy Borden, the spinster daughter of a glutton and a compulsive miser, ticks off the hours before a murder. An eighteenth-century whore and pickpocket who runs off to join the Indians tells her story in a voice of bawdy authenticity....

Annabel and Lee are married; Lee and Buzz are brothers. A quirky threesome, they have set up a household on the fringes on university life in the late sixties. Their hermetic existence is filled with drugs, sex, alchohol, intensity, and madness; their relationships with one another are haunting and complex.

Carter's compelling tale carries echoes of Poe and Bronte into the...

Väter, Bestien, Werwölfe - die Frauen in Märchen haben seit jeher kein einfaches Los. In Angela Carters Kult-Nachdichtungen von etwa Blaubart, Der gestiefelte Kater oder Die Schöne und das Biest wird die traditionelle Rollenverteilung nicht nur umgekehrt, sondern in die Luft gejagt. Hier werden Frauen zu Tigerbräuten und Schöne zu Biestern, Erlkönige mit dem eigenen Haar erwürgt und Werwolfsgroßmütter von ihren Enkelinnen erledigt. Die Antiheldinnen und Heldinnen dieser Märchen sinnen in gleichem Maße auf Rache, wie sie nach Liebe streben....

When Marianne, a Professor's daughter, is kidnapped to become the captive bride of the Barbarian Jewel, a dangerous, erotic love story begins. For as Marianne gives herself over to the exotic life of the jungle, she also begins to discover her own...