The Bloody Chamber

And other stories

CARTER, Angela

CARTER, Angela The Bloody Chamber And other stories

Gollancz, 1979.

First edition. Publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt, in the pictorial dustwrapper by Malcolm Ashman. A fine copy in a fine, price-clipped, dustwrapper.

Carter's reworking of traditional fairy tales, strongly influenced by gender politics. In 1985 she gave an interview in which she stated 'I was using the latent content of those traditional stories and that latent content is violently sexual.'

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