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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

By Angela Carter
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter is a collection of dark, sensual retellings of classic fairy tales and legends such as Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, and Beauty and the Beast. Carter weaves gothic romance with subversive narratives, breathing thrilling new life into these familiar stories. Her storytelling is richly imaginative, blending the supernatural with a provocative exploration of gender and power.
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This collection is ideal for readers who enjoy literary fiction with a gothic and feminist twist, fans of contemporary supernatural fiction, and those interested in classic tales reinvented with a dark, seductive edge.

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Angela Carter's dark and sensual retellings of fairy tales in "The Bloody Chamber" influenced contemporary supernatural fiction writers. Penguin Classics, a leading publisher for over 70 years, offers a diverse collection of authoritative texts with introductions and translations by renowned scholars and authors.

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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 and legends like Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, and Beauty and the Beast, giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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ISBN: 9780143107613

Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 May 2015

Country: India

Imprint: Penguin Books India

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

Angela Carter (1940–1992) was an English novelist, short‑story writer, poet, and journalist known for her bold, feminist reimaginings of myth, folklore, and fairy tales. Her work blends magical realism, gothic sensibility, surrealism, and political critique, often with dark humour and erotic charge. She is best known for The Bloody Chamber (1979), a collection that rewrites classic fairy tales through a feminist, subversive lens. The Times ranked her among the top British writers since 1945.

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