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  • Nights At The Circus

    by Angela Carter ...
    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SARAH WATERSIs 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 ... Read more

    Was $10.99 CAD Now $3.99 CAD

  • The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

    by Angela Carter ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    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 dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals, centaurs and acrobats, Desiderio must battle against unreality and the warping of time and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Heroes and Villains

    by Angela Carter ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape. There, beyond the wire fences, she will ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales

    by Angela Carter ...
    Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world- from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Black Venus

    by Angela Carter ...
    Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds...Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of a ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Unicorn

    The poetry of Angela Carter

    by Rosemary Hill, Angela Carter ...
    a) The UnicornAs with the night-scented stock, the fullsplendour of the unicorn manifests itself most potentlyat twilight. Then the horn sprouts, swells, bloomsin all its glory. SEE THE HORN(bend the tab, slit in slotmarked 'x')Despite being one of the most influential - and best-loved - of the post-war English writers, Angela Carter remains little-known as a poet. In Unicorn, the critic and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Wise Children

    by Emma Rice, Angela Carter ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance – twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river – are celebrating their 75th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father and greatest actor of his generation Melchior Hazard turns 100 on the same day. As does his twin brother Peregrine. If, in fact, he's still alive. And if, in truth, Melchior is their real father after all…Wise Children is adapted for ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Sadeian Woman

    An Exercise in Cultural History

    by Angela Carter ...
    Series Book 79 - Virago Modern Classics
    'The tone is one of intellectual relish . . . rational . . . refined . . . witty' NEW STATESMAN'Her work is funny, sexy, frightening and brutal' EDMUND GORDON, GUARDIAN**'Angela Carter liked to blur boundaries and break rules' GABY WOOD, INDEPENDENT'Sexuality is power' - so says the Marquis de Sade, philosopher and pornographer extraordinaire. His virtuous Justine keeps to the rules laid ... ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women

    by Angela Carter ...
    Series Book 71 - Virago Modern Classics
    'Wicked, wayward or otherwise, Carter's classic collection is a very erudite expression of girl power' MINA HOLLAND, GUARDIAN'One of the century's greatest writers' SUNDAY TIMESThis bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. These are subversive tales by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Nothing Sacred

    Selected Writings

    by Angela Carter ...
    Series Book 74 - Virago Modern Classics
    'Her imagination was one of the most dazzling this century' MARINA WARNER, INDEPENDENT'With the rise of feminist theory, reclamation of folktale and world domination of magical realism, Carter became a canon in her own right' GUARDIAN'Her writing occupies a unique place in twentieth century fiction' FAYE GODWIN, BRITISH LIBRARY'In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,' says Angel... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Angela Carter BBC Radio Drama Collection

    by Angela Carter ...
    Narrated by Anton Lesser, Full Cast, Fiona Shaw, Jessica Raine, Roisin Conaty, Andrew Sachs, Susannah Clapp, Lewis Fiander, Ariyon Bakare, James Anthony Rose ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    Angela Carter was one of the most important writers of the 20th Century. A pioneer of British magical realism, her work was described by Salman Rushdie as 'without rival and without equal'. Her radical, inventive novels influenced countless writers, while her dark, sensual short fiction turned traditional fables inside out, giving women the power over their desires and fates.Susannah Clapp, Angela ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Young People, Employment and Work Psychology

    Interventions and Solutions

    Edited by Angela Carter ...
    Youth unemployment and underemployment is a serious issue in most developed countries in the world. Having few young people in the workplace has serious and lasting consequences for generations of young people, their families, businesses and society as a whole. Dr Carter explores these important issues from multiple (and international) perspectives, offering research evidence and guiding ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD