Angela Carter
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born
May 07, 1940
died
February 16, 1992
gender
female
place of birth
The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction
about this author
Angela Carter (May 7, 1940 – February 16, 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her feminist magical realism and understanding of fairy tales. She won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Literature in 1984 for her novel Nights at the Circus.
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The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter avg rating 4.11 — 1,658 ratings — published 1979 15 editions |
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Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter avg rating 3.97 — 673 ratings — published 1984 11 editions |
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The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter avg rating 3.93 — 541 ratings — published 1967 12 editions |
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Wise Children by Angela Carter avg rating 3.98 — 511 ratings — published 1991 13 editions |
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Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter avg rating 4.35 — 378 ratings — published 1995 4 editions |
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The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman by Angela Carter avg rating 3.89 — 257 ratings — published 1972 9 editions |
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The Passion of New Eve by Angela Carter avg rating 3.82 — 214 ratings — published 1977 8 editions |
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Saints and Strangers by Angela Carter avg rating 4.10 — 186 ratings — published 1985 3 editions |
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The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography by Angela Carter avg rating 3.82 — 130 ratings — published 1978 9 editions |
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Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales by Angela Carter avg rating 4.14 — 118 ratings — published 1993 4 editions |
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"Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
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"I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off."
— Angela Carter
— Angela Carter
"The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocial. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers."
— Angela Carter (The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories)
— Angela Carter (The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories)
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