Анджела Картер — последние издания книг

'This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few human figures went masked . . . She was in the night once again, and the doll was herself.'
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave her rural home, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute since her wedding day; and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn. Brooding over all is Uncle Philip, who loves only the puppets he creates in his workshop, which are life-sized - and uncannily lifelike.

Fairy tales retold and interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. Discover Angela Carter's classic feminist retelling of favourite fairy tales interwoven by a master of seductive, luminous storytelling. From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves - Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few human figures went masked . . . She was in the night once again, and the doll was herself.
One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the home of her childhood, she is sent to live with relatives she has never met: gentle Aunt Margaret, mute since her wedding day; and her brothers, Francie and Finn. Brooding over all is Uncle Philip, who loves only the toys he makes in his workshop: clockwork roses and puppets that are life-size - and uncannily life-like.

Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales. This stunning collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world - from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.
This fabulous celebration of strong minds, low cunning, black arts and dirty tricks could only have been collected by the unique and much-missed Angela Carter. Illustrated throughout with original woodcuts.

‘I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.’ So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter’s first major achievement in the short story form. Lush imaginary forests, a murderous puppet show and an expressionistic vision of Japan: each one instantly conjures an atmosphere, dark and luminous in turn, and from the recognisably daring imagination of one of the great twentieth-century stylists.

The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all time - now in a beautiful clothbound edition.
This is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising Christmas stories from around the world, taking us from frozen Nordic woods to glittering Paris, a New York speakeasy to an English country house, bustling Lagos to midnight mass in Rio, and even outer space.
Here are classic tales from writers including Truman Capote, Shirley Jackson, Dylan Thomas, Saki and Chekhov, as well as little-known treasures such as Italo Calvino's wry sideways look at Christmas consumerism, Wolfdietrich Schnurre's story of festive ingenuity in Berlin, Selma Lagerlöf's enchanted forest in Sweden, and Irène Némirovsky's dark family portrait. Featuring santas, ghosts, trolls, unexpected guests, curmudgeons and miracles, here is Christmas as imagined by some of the greatest short story writers of all time.

Когда весь мир хотел "заниматься любовью, а не войной", три человека вели эмоциональную борьбу с собой и друг с другом. Ли, его жена Эннабел и брат Базз живут в своём мире, который не имеет ничего общего с реальным — их герметичное существование полнится наркотиками, сексом и алкоголем. В попытках утолить свой эмоциональный голод они не понимают, что поедают друг друга. Анджелу Картер называли пророком, классиком зарубежной литературы и прекрасной магической реалисткой — и каждое звание она заслужила по праву. Сочетая в своих работах реализм и сюрреализм, готику и настроения левого толка, она бросает вызов канонам художественной…

Июльский номер – тематический: «В Англии всё наоборот». Открывает его роман Анджелы Картер «Мудрые детки». ХХ век, семейная сага, актерская династия. Дора и Нора, дамы-близнецы за семьдесят, в прошлом актрисы варьете, внебрачные дочери сэра Мельхиора Хазарда – звезды шекспировского театра. Одна из них погружается в воспоминания, а им есть что вспомнить… Окончание следует в 8-м номере. В поэтическом разделе – шотландец Стюарт Сандерсон, вступление Григория Кружкова. Далее – пьеса Эмлина Уильямса «Кукуша», психологическая драма: бестолковое семейство жертвует едва улыбнувшимися ему счастьем и благополучием, чтобы не травмировать юную…

3,000 years of ideas about the nature of love in Western culture are brought together in this concise history. By blending the works of many scholars and examining the significant lives, works, and movements associated with love, Love: A Brief History Through Western Christianity traces the evolution and impact of this timeless topic. Takes the reader on a lightning but enlightening journey through 3,000 years of the idea of love Examines the influential movements, people, and work that have helped shape our notion of love in Western culture, written by a key figure in religious history Tackles the historical and religious concept in Western society, and our efforts to apply ideas of love to social concerns Explores diverse periods and examples – from the theological and philosophical texts of figures such as Augustine, Luther, and Feuerbach to intellectual movements like Romanticism and tragic historic figures such as Abelard and Heloise Contributes valuable insights into one of history’s most inexhaustible and timeless topics, spanning biblical views of love including monasticism and pietism, romantic notions of love, through to today’s liberal religion and concept of love as self-fulfillment.

Странный постапокалиптический мир то ли реальный, то ли иллюзорный... Здесь идет непрерывная война и льются реки крови. Здесь обитают в пустыне «новые амазонки» - грозные жрицы культа многогрудой черной богини, умеющей превращать мужчин в женщин. Здесь творит собственный новый язык безумный князь, многоженец и поэт. Здесь блуждают в глуши кланы беспощадных юных воинов, уничтожающих все на своем пути, и обитает в таинственном стеклянном замке загадочная красавица-актриса. И здесь блуждает, будто по кругам ада, случайно заброшенный в этот мир молодой англичанин Эвлин. Ему предстоит пережить безумные, дикие, невероятные кульбиты…

An omnibus of works by the great British writer that showcases her hauntingly erotic fabulism and the subversive richness of her imagination.

In The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter’s famous collection of deeply unsettling stories inspired by fairy tales, we see a Beauty who turns into a Beast, Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother stoned as a werewolf, and Bluebeard as a murderous, porn-addicted businessman. In the surreally delightful novel Wise Children, an elderly woman recounts the colorful life she and her identical twin sister led as vaudeville performers. And the early story collection Fireworks reveals Carter taking her first forays into the fantastical writing that was to become her unforgettable legacy. As critic Laura Miller has argued, “Most contemporary literary fiction with a touch of magic owes something to Angela Carter’s trailblazing.” This Everyman’s Library omnibus gathers the best of Angela Carter in one astonishing volume.

This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners Here are subversive tales - by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others - all have one thing in common: the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.

„Verise kambri” jutustused põhinevad muinasjuttudel või rahvapärimusel. Autor on öelnud, et tema eesmärgiks ei ole olnud kirjutada lugude uusversioone, vaid selitada välja nende latentne sisu. Ühtlasi on ta püüdnud rikkuda naiste kujutamise tava muinasjuttudes – koos uue kujuga on lood saanud ka uue tähenduse. Kogumikus on meelas ja barokne töötlus „Sinihabemest”, mitu versiooni „Kaunitarist ja koletisest”, humoorikas „Saabastega kass” ja veel mitu tuntud arhetüüpset lugu, mida vaadeldakse uue nurga alt. Angela Carteri viis muinasjuttude tõlgendusvõimalusi näidata ja nende sisu avada on olnud eeskujuks mitmele kirjanikule ning ka A.S. Byatt on öelnud, et oma raamatute kirjutamisel sai ta julgustust just Carteri teostest.

For the 75th anniversary of her birth, a Deluxe Edition of the master of the literary supernatural’s most celebrated book—featuring a new introduction by Kelly Link

Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.

„Verise kambri” jutustused põhinevad muinasjuttudel või rahvapärimusel. Autor on öelnud, et tema eesmärgiks ei ole olnud kirjutada lugude uusversioone, vaid selitada välja nende latentne sisu. Ühtlasi on ta püüdnud rikkuda naiste kujutamise tava muinasjuttudes – koos uue kujuga on lood saanud ka uue tähenduse. Kogumikus on meelas ja barokne töötlus „Sinihabemest”, mitu versiooni „Kaunitarist ja koletisest”, humoorikas „Saabastega kass” ja veel mitu tuntud arhetüüpset lugu, mida vaadeldakse uue nurga alt. Angela Carteri viis muinasjuttude tõlgendusvõimalusi näidata ja nende sisu avada on olnud eeskujuks mitmele kirjanikule ning ka A.S. Byatt on öelnud, et oma raamatute kirjutamisel sai ta julgustust just Carteri teostest.

Black Venus (also published as Saints and Strangers), is an anthology of short fiction. Angela Carter takes real people and literary legends - most often women - who have been mythologized or marginalized and recasts them in a new light. In a style that is sensual, cerebral, almost hypnotic, "The Fall River Axe-Murders" portrays the last hours before Lizzie Borden's infamous act: the sweltering heat, the weight of flannel and corsets, the clanging of the factory bells, the food reheated and reserved despite the lack of adequate refrigeration, the house "full of locked doors that open only into other rooms with other locked doors." In "Our Lady of the Massacre" the no-nonsense voice of an eighteenth-century prostitute/runaway slave questions who is civilized - the Indians or the white men? "Black Venus" gives voice to Charles Baudelaire's Creole mistress, Jeanne Duval: "you could say, not so much that Jeanne did not understand the lapidary, troubled serenity of her lover's poetry but, that it was a perpetual affront to her. He recited it to her by the hour and she ached, raged and chafed under it because his eloquence denied her language." "The Kiss" takes the traditional story of Tamburlaine's wife and gives it a new and refreshing ending. Sometimes disquieting, sometimes funny, always thought-provoking, Angela Carter's stories offer a feminist revision of images that lie deep in the public psyche.

A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia "Heroes and Villains" includes an introduction by Robert Coover in "Penguin Modern Classics". Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors. Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape. There, beyond the wire fences, she will discover a decaying paradise, encounter the tattooed Barbarian boy Jewel and go beyond the darkest limits of her imagination. Playful, sensuous, violent and gripping, "Heroes and Villains" is an ambiguous and deliriously rich blend of post-apocalyptic fiction, gothic fantasy, literary allusion and twisted romance. Angela Carter (1940-92) was born in Eastbourne and later evacuated to live with her grandmother in Yorkshire. She read English at Bristol University, and after escaping an early marriage went to live in Japan for a number of years. She wrote nine novels, which blend fantasy, science fiction and gothic, and is often referred to as a writer of magical realism. If you enjoyed "Heroes and Villains", you might like Carter's "The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman", also available in "Penguin Modern Classics". "Angela Carter is a genius." ("Victoria Glendinning"). "An unashamed fantasist, a fabulist of daemonic energy." ("The Times").

A timeless theme that cannot be ignored, love has always fascinated artists. Painters, sculptors, even architects drew their inspiration from it and illustrated it. Ever new, it has lead artists to the masterworks of their life. From Titian’s Sacred and profane love to Brancusi’s Kiss, love changes along with time and style, but stays, in the end an everlasting universal language. Love in all its strength and variety are illustrated by this book.

Дэвид Теннант снова читает истории о вампирах. Но если в прошлый раз, в 2010 году, первый выпуск состоял из пяти тревожных викторианских историй о вампирах, то в этот раз представляются истории 20 века, и мы знакомимся с неожиданными поворотами в развитии событий, происходящих в Великобритании и в США.
Продюсер: Клайв Брилл.

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, published in the United States as The War of Dreams, is a 1972 novel by Angela Carter. This picaresque novel is heavily influenced by surrealism, Romanticism, critical theory and other branches of Continental philosophy. Its style is an amalgam of magical realism and postmodern pastiche. The novel has been called a theoretical fiction, as it clearly engages in some of the theoretical issues of its time, notably feminism, mass media and the counterculture.