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Burning Your Boats: Collected Stories
| Author: | Angela Carter |
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Henry Holt and Company, 1996 Chatto & Windus, 1995 |
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Synopsis
An omnibus edition that includes all the stories from Carter's collections Fireworks, The Bloody Chamber, Black Venus, and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders.
One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents--as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and weaver of tales--are most penetratingly evident. This volume presents Carter's considerable legacy of short fiction gathered from published books, and includes early and previously unpublished stories. From reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of classic folklore and fairy tales, to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its tawdry glory, we are able to chart the evolution of Carter's marvelous, magical vision.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction (Burning Your Boats) - (1995) - essay by Salman Rushdie
- EARLY WORK, 1962-6
- The Man Who Loved a Double Bass - (1962)
- A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home - (1965)
- A Victorian Fable (With Glossary) - (1966)
- FIREWORKS: NINE PROFANE PIECES, 1974
- A Souvenir of Japan - (1974)
- The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter - (1974)
- The Loves of Lady Purple - (1974)
- The Smile of Winter - (1974)
- Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest - (1974)
- Flesh and the Mirror - (1974)
- Master - (1974)
- Reflections - (1974)
- Elegy for a Freelance - (1974)
- THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES, 1979
- The Bloody Chamber - (1979)
- The Courtship of Mr. Lyon - (1979)
- The Tiger's Bride - (1979)
- Puss-in-Boots - (1979)
- The Erl-King - (1977)
- The Snow Child - (1979)
- The Lady of the House of Love - (1975)
- The Werewolf - (1977)
- The Company of Wolves - (1977)
- Wolf Alice - (1978)
- BLACK VENUS, 1985
- Black Venus - (1980)
- The Kiss - (1977)
- Our Lady of the Massacre - (1979)
- The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe - (1982)
- Overture and Incidental Music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream" - (1982)
- Peter and the Wolf - (1982)
- The Kitchen Child - (1979)
- The Fall River Axe Murders - (1981)
- AMERICAN GHOSTS AND OLD WORLD WONDERS, 1993
- Lizzie's Tiger - (1991)
- John Ford's "'Tis Pity She's a Whore" - (1988)
- Gun for the Devil - (1993)
- The Merchant of Shadows - (1989)
- The Ghost Ships - (1993)
- In Pantoland - (1991)
- Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost - (1987)
- Alice in Prague or The Curious Room - (1990)
- Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene - (1992)
- UNCOLLECTED STORIES, 1970-81
- The Scarlet House - (1977)
- The Snow Pavilion - (1995)
- The Quilt Maker - (1981)
- Afterword (Fireworks) - (1974)
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