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 enlarge | Author: Angela Carter
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 7143
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 014017821X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780140178210
ASIN: 014017821X
Publication Date: January 1, 1990
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 The flip side of the traditional fairy tale April 25, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Carter's collection sheds a feminist retelling of many famous fairy tales. I especially liked what she did with Blackbeard and the Puss in Boots.
Included in this collection is the story behind the film, "In the Company of the Wolves."
Don't come to this collection expecting Grimm's. Come to it expecting great storytelling and interesting perspectives on the tales we thought we knew so well.
Twisted fairy tales December 11, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I had to read this book for one of my college courses and absolutly loved it. The way Carter twists the fairy tales and adds a sometimes morbid clencher is excellent. I loved the statments she was making in them and the way stories were told was excellent. As was the fact that women weren't made out to be weak or that their only rightful place was in the kitchen. Out of all the stories in the book I found "The Tigers Bride" (re-telling of Beauty and the Beast) and "The Company of Wolves" (re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood) to be my favorites.
Little Red Riding Hood and the Lone Wolf...... December 2, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This great collection of short stories by the late Angela Carter focusses on the theme of familiar fairy tales and legends that includes Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves with a provocative element and mind-inflicting twists. The gist of these dark tales, written in fantastic prose venture on the chemistry between human and beast(s) and of their self-discovery of inner thought as well as their physical sexual conformations. This book can be read over and over as the language woven within it's plot reaches a point where there are many possiblities for the characters-the innocent virginal maiden and the beast can go from, and for the reader being left in a wild sense of wanting to know more.
So be prepared to be propelled through one heck of a rollercoaster as from the first few pages, even every sentence containing a unique word will immediately have an impact in this sexually implicit and bloody fest of a book.
I accidentally came across Angela Carter's works through "The Company of Wolves", as i have never heard of her, and will definitely be amongst my collection including S.K., James Herbert, Dean Koontz. Highly recommended for horror fans.
 A bit of the Brothers Grimm as seen by Edgar Alan Poe August 31, 2005
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am really happy to see other reviewers reveling in Ms. Carter's use of language, as I think her ability to turn a phrase is by far the strongest aspects of these stories. While my original reaction on rereading these stories after their laying fallow on my shelves for many years is that they are very much in the Gothic tradition of Edgar Alan Poe's stories, but I think that may be just a bit too strong. While, to my less than scholarly familiarity with Gothic short stories, I think Carter is able to conjure up the same dark sense of Poe's stories, I think Carter is just a bit less original than Poe. Carter, I am certain makes no apologies about the fact that she is giving us reworkings of old stories. Old wine in new bottles, as it were.
The new bottle includes just a bit more tittilation than we get from the originals, and certainly much more lush and inventive language.
As an old hand at reviewing cookbooks, I am especially fond of her many uses of culinary allusions, as when she speaks of her heroine's being peeled like an artichoke, down to the heart.
The first reason I did not give this book five stars is because these are reworkings of old stories, and, as talented as her writing is, she is not Shakespeare. The second reason is that some of her endings are just a bit contrived. In the first, title story, our heroine escapes from her punishment for opening her Pandora's box by a pure 'deux ex machina', a rescue from out of the blue, with little preparation to make it more plausible.
Still, this is darn good reading, and I am happy to know of Ms. Carter's work.
Review of Bloody Chamber July 1, 2005
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a beatifully dark book that reads with eloquence and style. It is often horrific, always thrilling and innovative. I would recommend this book to teens and adults alike.
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