From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood , Bluebeard , Puss in Boots , Beauty and the Beast , vampires and werewolves - the author has created a collection of stories.

Angela Carter's pick of Mother Goose's feathers. A collection of fairy tales for children and adults alike.

Nights At The Circus is a novel set in the turn of the 19th century world by Angela Carter.

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The boldest of English women writers' LORNA SAGE

A comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the hazards and chances. The author's novel is populated with as many sets of twins, and mistaken identities as any Shakespeare comedy, and celebrates the magic of over a century of show business.

Includes tales that glitter and haunt.

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This story follows Evelyn, a young Englishman, along a journey through mythology and sexuality. It is a story of how he learns to be a woman, first in the brutal hands of Zero, the ragtime Nietzsche, then through the ancient Tristessa, the beautiful ghost of Hollywood past.

In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition, fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. This book adapts the stories for modern readers of English.

'Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' Observer

As well as her eight novels, the author published four collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several anthologies. This work presents a collection of her stories.

* Angela Carter's highly acclaimed polemic enlisting the Marquis de Sade in an argument about women's sexual freedom

In this, her first novel, Angela Carter tells a tale of shattered beauty and male camaraderie.

A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from the author's imagination. She also wrote Nights at the Circus , The Magic Toyshop and Shadow Dance .

When a jealous dragon spies an adored sea-cat, lessons are learnt about friendship, jealousy and a mother's love.

The illegitimate Chance twins are the black sheep of the family; the all-singing, all-dancing, sweary, aging, make-up caked, high-heeled, bawdy, gritty and magnetic Chance twins, that is. Never apart for long, the two are peas from the same pod: Sir Melchior Hazard, surviving head of an acting dynasty, who is to celebrate his 100th birthday.

Joseph - a 22-year-old self-styled nihilist in search of meaning, found releasing a badger from a zoo, seducing his best friend's mother, dancing at a Dionysic revel and spending his days in a mortuary - is the anti-hero at the heart of this novel.

Nine darkly inventive tales from one of Britain's most original and imaginative writers.

This collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners.