Angela Carter (1940–1992)
Autor(a) de The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
About the Author
A powerful and disturbing writer, Angela Carter created haunting fiction about travelers surviving their passage through a disintegrating universe. Often based on myth or fairy tale-borrowed or invented for the occasion-her work evokes the most powerful aspects of sexuality and selfhood, of life mostrar mais and death, of apocalypse. Carter's most successful novels include The Magic Toyshop (1967), which received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Several Perceptions (1968), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. The Passion of New Eve (1977), a story of the end of the world and its possible new beginning with failed mankind replaced by a self-generating womankind. She translated many fairy tales and wrote several collections of short stories, including The Bloody Chamber (1979) which won the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award and was the basis for the powerful movie A Company of Wolves. She worked as a journalist and as a professor at Brown and the University of Texas. She published two nonfiction books of interest: Nothing Sacred, selected writings, and The Sadeian Woman (1979). (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Angela Carter
The Magic Toyshop, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, Wise Children (1996) 51 exemplares
The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series) (2018) 36 exemplares
Vintage Fear: " The Complete Fairy Tales " , " The Bloody Chamber " (Vintage Classic Twins) (2007) 29 exemplares
Sentence Diagramming Beginning: Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences (Grades 3-12 ) (2016) 13 exemplares
The Bloody Chamber [short story] 10 exemplares
Sentence Diagramming Level 1 - Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences (Grades 5-12 ) (2016) 8 exemplares
The Courtship of Mr Lyon [short story] 6 exemplares
Sentence Diagramming Level 2 - Breakdown and Learn the Underlying Structure of Sentences (Grades 7-12 ) (2017) 6 exemplares
The Tiger's Bride [short story] 6 exemplares
Wolf-Alice [short story] 4 exemplares
Puss-in-Boots [short story] 4 exemplares
The Company of Wolves (Special Edition) [DVD] [1984] 3 exemplares
The War of Dreams 3 exemplares
The Erl-King [short story] 3 exemplares
The Snow Child [short story] 3 exemplares
The Werewolf [short story] 3 exemplares
Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, & Other Classic Fairy Tales Of Charles Perrault (1992) 2 exemplares
The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter [short story] 2 exemplares
Vampirella 2 exemplares
The Snow Pavilion 2 exemplares
Stories for Winter: And Nights by the Fire 2 exemplares
Alice in Prague or The Curious Room [short fiction] 2 exemplares
Maître 1 exemplar
Peter And The Wolf 1 exemplar
the magic toy shop by angela carter 1 exemplar
La pasión de la nueva Eva 1 exemplar
BOOK OF THE FAIRY TALES 1 exemplar
The Erlking [short fiction] 1 exemplar
O quarto do Barba-azul 1 exemplar
Krvava odaja 1 exemplar
Carter, Angela Archive 1 exemplar
Ashputtle; or, The Mother's Ghost 1 exemplar
Carter Angela 1 exemplar
花火―九つの冒涜的な物語 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Spells of Enchantment: The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture (1991) — Contribuidor — 562 exemplares
Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England (1987) — Contribuidor — 481 exemplares
You've Got to Read This: Contemporary American Writers Introduce Stories that Held Them in Awe (1994) — Contribuidor — 377 exemplares
The Art of the Story: An International Anthology of Contemporary Short Stories (1999) — Contribuidor — 345 exemplares
Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology (2015) — Contribuidor — 292 exemplares
Women of Wonder, the Contemporary Years: Science Fiction by Women from the 1970s to the 1990s (1995) — Contribuidor — 203 exemplares
Wild Women: Contemporary Short Stories by Women Celebrating Women (1994) — Contribuidor — 148 exemplares
The Sophisticated Cat: A Gathering of Stories, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings About Cats (1992) — Contribuidor — 99 exemplares
The Virago Book of Ghost Stories: The Twentieth Century, Volume 1 (1987) — Contribuidor — 76 exemplares
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contribuidor — 62 exemplares
ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories (2006) — Contribuidor — 59 exemplares
Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus (2004) — Contribuidor — 51 exemplares
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Contribuidor — 37 exemplares
The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction (1997) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
Light Years and Dark: Science Fiction and Fantasy of and for Our Time (1984) — Contribuidor — 36 exemplares
In Search of the Simple Life: American Voices, Past and Present (1986) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
Sexuality and Masquerade: The Dedalus Book of Sexual Ambiguity (1996) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
Pulsar: An Original Anthology of Science Fiction and Science Futures: No. 1 (1978) — Contribuidor — 25 exemplares
The Reception of Grimms' Fairy Tales: Responses, Reactions, Revisions (1993) — Contribuidor — 16 exemplares
Once Upon a Time There Was a Traveller: Asham Award-winning Stories (2013) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Im Zeichen der Venus. Frauen schreiben erotische Geschichten ( Anthologie). (1985) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Outros nomes
- Carter-Pearce, Angela Olive
Carter, Angela Olive
Stalker, Angela Olive (birth name) - Data de nascimento
- 1940-05-07
- Data de falecimento
- 1992-02-16
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- País (no mapa)
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Eastbourne, Sussex, England, UK
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Causa da morte
- cancer (lung)
- Locais de residência
- Japan
USA
Australia
Yorkshire, England, UK
London, England, UK - Educação
- University of Bristol
- Ocupações
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
children's writer
reporter - Relações
- Enright, Anne (student)
- Organizações
- University of Sheffield (fellow ∙ creative writing)
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- Guest of Honour, Eastercon, UK (1982)
James Tiptree, Jr. Award (Special, 1997) - Agente
- Stephen Durbridge (The Agency)
Rogers, Coleridge & White
Membros
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "The Snow Pavilion" by Angela Carter em The Weird Tradition (Abril 2021)
Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter--Bowie's Top 100 em 75 Books Challenge for 2016 (Novembro 2016)
BRITISH AUTHOR CHALLENGE APRIL 2015 - CARTER & SOMERSET MAUGHAM em 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (Setembro 2015)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 89
- Also by
- 88
- Membros
- 22,618
- Popularidade
- #937
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 434
- ISBN
- 412
- Línguas
- 18
- Marcado como favorito
- 224