The Bloody Chamber, Wise Children, Fireworks

Resumen del libro

In The Bloody Chamber, Carter's famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, a Beauty is turned into a Beast and Little Red Riding's grandmother is stoned to death as a witch; a young music student is swept off her feet in Paris by a middle-aged aristocrat and transported to his ancestral abode to re-enact the story of Bluebeard against a sumptuous fin de siecle background; a British soldier on a cycling holiday in Transylvania in the summer of 1914 finds himself the guest of an alluring female vampire. By contrast, in Wise Children, Carter's last novel), the comic, the bawdy and the life-enhancing prevail. An irrepressible elderly lady recalls the many colourful decades she and her sister spent as vaudeville performers - a tale as full of twins and mistaken identities as any plot of Shake- speare's.

The early collection, Fireworks, reveals Carter taking her first forays into the fantastic writing that was to become her unforgettable legacy. The Everyman's Library omnibus gathers the best of Angela Carter in one astonishing volume.

Biografía del autor

Nació en Eastbourne en 1940 y murió en Londres en 1992. Es unánimemente reconocida como una de las autoras más importantes de la literatura británica del siglo XX. En Sexto Piso hemos publicado sus novelas La juguetería mágica y Noches en el circo , así como ?su libro de relatos La cámara sangrienta , recogido a su vez en el volumen de cuentos completos Quemar las naves . A estas obras se une ahora su novela Niñas sabias , la última que escribió Carter, publicada un año antes de su muerte.