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Nothing Sacred: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780860682691 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Angela Carter was also a journalist and critic. 'Nothing Sacred' explores a range of topics as Carter writes about herself, Japan, England and Englishness and literary criticism.
One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, Angela Carter was also a journalist and critic. 'Nothing Sacred' explores a range of topics as ...
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Several Perceptions
ISBN: 9781860490941 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the heart of this novel.
Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a...
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Heroes and Villains
ISBN: 9780140234640 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization while the superstitious Barbarians constantly attack them. The Barbarians are in turn attacked by the deformed and diseased Out People, who struggle to survive in a netherworld of incinerated cities. 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...
After the apocalypse, society is divided into three endlessly warring factions. The Professors and Soldiers maintain what is left of civilization whil...
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Piękna córka kata. Opowiadania wybrane
ISBN: 9788381916417 / Polski / twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 1-3 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Proza Angeli Carter jest zmysłowa, fantastyczna, erotyczna, a przy tym polityczna i uczona. Wciąga jak wir. […] Niezwykła wyobraźnia, gęsta materia literacka, labirynt świata, ostre bodźce dla wszystkich zmysłów na raz i szalony, niepowstrzymany rozpęd języka – wszystko razem jest jak lot na rozhuśtanym trapezie, maskarada i przebieranka, wędrówka przez ciemny las i wejście do klatki tygrysa. Dzikość, nieopanowanie, pieniący się, roztęczowany wodospad świata. […]
Pisarstwo Carter, które było niesłychaną eksplozją kreatywnej i intelektualnej energii, to... Proza Angeli Carter jest zmysłowa, fantastyczna, erotyczna, a przy tym polityczna i uczona. Wciąga jak wir. […] Niezwykła wyobraźnia, gęsta m...
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American Ghosts & Old World Wonders
ISBN: 9780099133711 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pianist makes a Faustian pact in a fly-blown Southern brothel; and a transfigured Mary Magdalene steps out of the canvases of Donatello and de la Tour.
A collection of short stories which tear through the archives of cinema, of art and of the subconscious. A young Lizzie Borden visits the circus; a pi...
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Nights at the Circus
ISBN: 9780140077032 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, her acclaimed novel about the exploits of a circus performer who is part-woman, part-swan Sophi Fevvers--the toast of Europe's capitals, courted by the Prince of Wales, painted by Toulouse-Lautrec--is an aerialiste extraordinaire, star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover Fevvers's true identity: Is she part swan or all fake?... Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
ISBN: 9780140235197 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and plazas are suddenly as fertile as fairy-book forests. And the evil comes, too, as imaginary massacres fill the streets with blood, the dead return to question the living, and profound anxiety drives hundreds to suicide.
Behind it all stands Doctor Hoffman, whose gigantic generators crack the immutable surfaces of time and space and plunge civilization into a world without the chains - or structures - of reason. Only Desiderio, immune to... The transformation of Desiderio's city into a mysterious kingdom is instantaneous: Hallucination flows with magical speed in every brain; avenues and ...
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The Bloody Chamber: And Other Stories: 75th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780143107613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural's most celebrated book--featuring a new introduction by Kelly Link Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber--which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves--she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales...
For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural's most celebrated book--featuring a new introduc...
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The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks: Introduction by Joan Acocella
ISBN: 9781101907993 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) An omnibus of works by the great British writer that showcases her hauntingly erotic fabulism and the subversive richness of her imagination. In The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, we see a Beauty who turns into a Beast, Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother stoned as a werewolf, and Bluebeard as a murderous, porn-addicted businessman. In the surreally delightful novel Wise Children, an elderly woman recounts the colorful life she and her identical twin sister led as vaudeville performers. And the...
An omnibus of works by the great British writer that showcases her hauntingly erotic fabulism and the subversive richness of her imagination. <...
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Expletives Deleted : Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780099222811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Presenting a selection of her writing, Angela Carter covers more than a decade of her thought, which ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a measure of the focus of her interests.
Presenting a selection of her writing, Angela Carter covers more than a decade of her thought, which ranges over a diversity of subjects giving a meas...
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The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks
ISBN: 9781841593838 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; The early collection, Fireworks, reveals Carter taking her first forays into the fantastic writing that was to become her unforgettable legacy.
In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red...
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Wise Children
ISBN: 9780374530945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) 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... In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora--unacknowledged daughters of Sir Mel... |
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Wise Children
ISBN: 9780099981107 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) This is the comic tale of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. The 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.
This is the comic tale of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances. The novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identi...
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Shadow Dance
ISBN: 9781860490415 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In this, her first novel, Angela Carter tells a tale of shattered beauty and male camaraderie.
In this, her first novel, Angela Carter tells a tale of shattered beauty and male camaraderie.
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The Magic Toyshop
ISBN: 9780860681908 / Angielski / Miękka / 1981 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Melanie walks in the midnight garden, wearing her mother's wedding dress. Omens of disaster transport her from rural comfort to London, to the Magic Toyshop, the dancing Finn and the mysterious ruins of the pleasure garden.
Melanie walks in the midnight garden, wearing her mother's wedding dress. Omens of disaster transport her from rural comfort to London, to the Magic T...
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Nights at the Circus
ISBN: 9780099388616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "Raunchy, raucous... a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety."
--The Times Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan... or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an aerialiste extraordinaire and star of Colonel Kearney's circus. She is also part woman, part swan. Jack Walser, an American journalist, is on a quest to discover the truth behind her identity. Dazzled by his love for her, and desperate for the scoop of a lifetime, Walser has no choice but... "Raunchy, raucous... a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety." --The Times |
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The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History
ISBN: 9781844083770 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Juliette, Justine's triumphantly monstrous antithesis, viciously exploits her sexuality. In a world where all tenderness is false, all beds are minefields.
But now Sade has met his match. With invention and genius, Angela Carter takes on these outrageous figments of his extreme imagination, and transforms them into symbols of our time - the Hollywood sex goddesses, mothers and daughters,... Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid down by m...
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories: A special edition of the feminist cult classic
ISBN: 9781784878689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories
ISBN: 9780099592914 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers. Suitable for Angela Carter aficionados, this title gathers together her work.
As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several antholo...
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Love
ISBN: 9780140108514 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) "One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities."
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... "One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her for she had no inst...
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