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For the 75th anniversary of Angela Carter's birth, a stunning Deluxe Edition of the most celebrated book by the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction
A Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
Out of familiar fairy tales and well-loved legends--including Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss-in-Boots, and Beauty and the Beast--Angela Carter creates an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories. Though steeped in the romantic entrappings of gothic tradition, Carter's women are far from the passive female characters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the surprise heroine in "The Bloody Chamber" to the surprise villain in "The Werewolf," Carter explores female agency and sexuality in ways that shocked her contemporaries and continue to shock readers of traditional fairy tales today. Her hypnotic prose breathes new life into these enduring tales, every bit as haunting and disarming here as when encountered for the first time.
For more than seventy-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 2,000 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.
