Angela Carter (1940–1992)
Auteur van The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Over de Auteur
A powerful and disturbing writer, Angela Carter created haunting fiction about travelers surviving their passage through a disintegrating universe. Often based on myth or fairy tale-borrowed or invented for the occasion-her work evokes the most powerful aspects of sexuality and selfhood, of life toon meer and death, of apocalypse. Carter's most successful novels include The Magic Toyshop (1967), which received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Several Perceptions (1968), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. The Passion of New Eve (1977), a story of the end of the world and its possible new beginning with failed mankind replaced by a self-generating womankind. She translated many fairy tales and wrote several collections of short stories, including The Bloody Chamber (1979) which won the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award and was the basis for the powerful movie A Company of Wolves. She worked as a journalist and as a professor at Brown and the University of Texas. She published two nonfiction books of interest: Nothing Sacred, selected writings, and The Sadeian Woman (1979). (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Angela Carter
Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories (1986) — Redacteur — 526 exemplaren
The Magic Toyshop, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Wise Children (1996) 50 exemplaren
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (2018) 36 exemplaren
Vintage Fear: " The Complete Fairy Tales " , " The Bloody Chamber " (Vintage Classic Twins) (2007) 29 exemplaren
Sentence Diagramming Beginning: Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences (Grades 3-12 ) (2016) 15 exemplaren
The Bloody Chamber [short story] 10 exemplaren
Sentence Diagramming Level 1 - Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences (Grades 5-12 ) (2016) 8 exemplaren
Sentence Diagramming Level 2 - Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences (Grades 7-12 ) (2017) 7 exemplaren
The Courtship of Mr Lyon [short story] 6 exemplaren
The Tiger's Bride [short story] 6 exemplaren
Wolf-Alice [short story] 4 exemplaren
Puss-in-Boots [short story] 4 exemplaren
The Company of Wolves (Special Edition) [DVD] [1984] 3 exemplaren
The War of Dreams 3 exemplaren
The Erl-King [short story] 3 exemplaren
The Snow Child [short story] 3 exemplaren
The Werewolf [short story] 3 exemplaren
Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, & Other Classic Fairy Tales Of Charles Perrault (1992) 2 exemplaren
The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter [short story] 2 exemplaren
Vampirella 2 exemplaren
The Snow Pavilion 2 exemplaren
Stories for Winter: And Nights by the Fire 2 exemplaren
Alice in Prague or The Curious Room [short fiction] 2 exemplaren
Maître 1 exemplaar
Peter And The Wolf 1 exemplaar
the magic toy shop by angela carter 1 exemplaar
La pasión de la nueva Eva 1 exemplaar
BOOK OF THE FAIRY TALES 1 exemplaar
The Erlking [short fiction] 1 exemplaar
O quarto do Barba-azul 1 exemplaar
Krvava odaja 1 exemplaar
Carter, Angela Archive 1 exemplaar
Ashputtle; or, The Mother's Ghost 1 exemplaar
Carter Angela 1 exemplaar
花火―九つの冒涜的な物語 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Carter-Pearce, Angela Olive
Carter, Angela Olive
Stalker, Angela Olive (birth name) - Geboortedatum
- 1940-05-07
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1992-02-16
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- London, England, UK
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- cancer (lung)
- Woonplaatsen
- Japan
USA
Australia
Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Opleiding
- University of Bristol
- Beroepen
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
children's writer
reporter - Relaties
- Enright, Anne (student)
- Organisaties
- University of Sheffield (fellow ∙ creative writing)
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1982)
James Tiptree, Jr. Award (Special, 1997) - Agent
- Stephen Durbridge (The Agency)
Rogers, Coleridge & White
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Discussies
THE DEEP ONES: "The Snow Pavilion" by Angela Carter in The Weird Tradition (april 2021)
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter--Bowie's Top 100 in 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (november 2016)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE APRIL 2015 - CARTER & SOMERSET MAUGHAM in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (september 2015)
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- Ook door
- 89
- Leden
- 22,635
- Populariteit
- #937
- Waardering
- 3.9
- Besprekingen
- 434
- ISBNs
- 412
- Talen
- 18
- Favoriet
- 224