"Angela Carter is the godmother of fantasy. These stories could be simplified as reworkings of classic fairy tales, but that would do a disservice to their depth and complexity. I read this hungrily, on buses and in elevators, canceling plans just so I could dwell in her rich and intoxicating worlds a little bit longer. They deal in female desire and magic, the velvety fabric of dreams, and beastliness, all melded together like a pool of wax at the base of a candle.
Gosh, just read this. It mesmerizes."
Publisher Penguin Classics
Publication Date 2015-05-26
Section New Titles - Paperback / Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Archived Staff Suggestions / Sophie B.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780143107613
For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural’s most celebrated book
Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she breathed new life into familiar fairy tales and legends in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition. This edition features a new introduction by Kelly Link, the Nebula and World Fantasy Award–wining author, one of a new generation of writers who’ve been inspired by Carter’s brand of fantastical, subversive, boundlessly imaginative fiction.
For more than sixty-five years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,500 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.
