Invention of Angela Carter - A Biography (Gordon Edmund)(Paperback / softback)

Invention of Angela Carter - A Biography (Gordon Edmund)(Paperback / softback)

Angela Carter is widely acknowledged as one of the most important and beguiling writers of the last century. By the time of her tragic and untimely death at the age of fifty-one, she was firmly established as an iconoclastic writer. This is the story of how Angela Carter came to write such works as

Nothing Sacred - Selected Writings (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

* A magnificent selection of Angela Carter 's journalistic and critical work, this shows her as one of the funniest and most perceptive critics of our age, a maverick who didn't miss a

Several Perceptions (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

* Full of the wit and irreverence for which Carter is

Shadow Dance (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

* In this, her first novel, Angela Carter tells a disturbing and delicious tale of shattered beauty and male camaraderie which shows one of the 20th century's greatest writers at the start of a dazzling

Bloody Chamber (Carter . Angela)(Paperback / softback)

Penguin Book of Christmas Stories - From Hans Christian Andersen to Angela Carter(Paperback / softback)

Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter (Topping Angela)(Paperback / softback)

Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

* This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners - reissued in a HB edition as a companion to Angela Carter's Book of Fairy

Colonel Roosevelt (Morris Edmund)(Paperback)

This biography by Edmund Morris, the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning author of The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt and Theodore Rex, marks the completion of a trilogy sure to stand as definitive. Of all our great presidents, Theodore Roosevelt is the only one whose greatness increased

Black Venus (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

Based on real people, this volume offers a collection of stories focusing on mingling history, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low

Burning Your Boats - Collected Short Stories (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIEAs well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. The stories were scattered amongst different publishers, and a couple of the volumes are now

Wise Children (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHA richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter's witty and bawdy novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a

Love (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY AUDREY NIFFENEGGERLove is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. This revised edition has lost none of Angela Carter's haunting power to evoke the ebb of the 1960s, and includes an afterword which describes the progress of the survivors into the anguish

Passion Of New Eve (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

THE PASSION OF NEW EVE is an extraordinary journey into the apocalyptic vision of the author Lorna Sage called 'The boldest of English

Bloody Chamber: York Notes Advanced (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

Full of analysis and interpretation, historical background, discussions and commentaries, York Notes will help you get right to the heart of the text you're studying, whether it's poetry, a play or a

Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his

Nights at the Circus (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

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

Unpunished Vice - A Life of Reading (White Edmund)(Paperback / softback)

Magic Toyshop (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to mark the 40th anniversary of the Virago Modern

Magic Toyshop (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of

Churchill's Legionnaire Edmund Murray (Murray Bill)(Pevná vazba)

A biography of Edmund Murray, Winston Churchill's close friend and bodyguard in the final years of his life In 1937, aged just nineteen, Edmund Murray left his family and a comfortable job in London, caught the boat train to France, and signed up for the minimum of five years' service with the

Undertones of War (Blunden Edmund)(Paperback / softback)

An autobiography of the distinguished poet Edmund Blunden. It records his experiences as an infantry subaltern in France and Flanders. It tells of the heroism and despair found among the officers. It shows how he found hope in the natural

Other Side of the Whale Road (Hayton K.A.)(Paperback / softback)

Plunged back in time to Anglo-Saxon England, can 16-year-old Joss warn King Edmund in time to stop his murder by Viking

Heroes and Villains (Carter Angela)(Paperback / softback)

Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and other Professors. Outside, where land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but,