Burning Your Boats The Collected Short Stories,9780140255287

Burning Your Boats The Collected Short Stories

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780140255287
ISBN10: 0140255281
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-08-01
Publisher(s): Penguin Books
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Summary

One of our most imaginative and accomplished writers, Angela Carter left behind a dazzling array of work: essays, citicism, and fiction. But it is in her short stories that her extraordinary talents--as a fabulist, feminist, social critic, and weaver of tales--are most penetratingly evident. This volume presents Carter's considerable legacy of short fiction gathered from published books, and includes early and previously unpublished stories. From reflections on jazz and Japan, through vigorous refashionings of classic folklore and fairy tales, to stunning snapshots of modern life in all its tawdry glory, we are able to chart the evolution of Carter's marvelous, magical vision.

Author Biography

Angela Carter (1940 -1992) wrote nine novels and numerous short stories, as well as nonfiction, radio plays, and the screenplay for Neil Jordan's 1984 movie The Company of Wolves, based on her story. She won numerous literary awards, traveled and taught widely in the United States, and lived in London.
Born in Bombay in 1947, Salman Rushdie is the author of six novels, including Grimus, Shame, The Satanic Verses, The Moor's Last Sigh, and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, and a volume of essays, Imaginary Homelands. His numerous literary prizes include the Booker Prize for Midnight's Children and the Whitbread Prize for The Satanic Verses.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Salman Rushdie
EARLY WORK, 1962--6
The Man Who Loved a Double Bass
3(8)
A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home
11(5)
A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)
16(11)
FIREWORKS: NINE PROFANE PIECES, 1974
A Souvenir of Japan
27(8)
The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter
35(6)
The Loves of Lady Purple
41(11)
The Smile of Winter
52(6)
Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest
58(10)
Flesh and the Mirror
68(7)
Master
75(6)
Reflections
81(15)
Elegy for a Freelance
96(15)
THE BLOODY CHAMBER AND OTHER STORIES, 1979
The Bloody Chamber
111(33)
The Courtship of Mr Lyon
144(10)
The Tiger's Bride
154(16)
Puss-in-Boots
170(16)
The Erl-King
186(7)
The Snow Child
193(2)
The Lady of the House of Love
195(15)
The Werewolf
210(2)
The Company of Wolves
212(9)
Wolf-Alice
221(10)
BLACK VENUS, 1985
Black Venus
231(14)
The Kiss
245(3)
Our Lady of the Massacre
248(14)
The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe
262(11)
Overture and Incidental Music for a Midsummer Night's Dream
273(11)
Peter and the Wolf
284(8)
The Kitchen Child
292(8)
The Fall River Axe Murders
300(21)
AMERICAN GHOSTS AND OLD WORLD WONDERS, 1993
Lizzie's Tiger
321(11)
John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
332(17)
Gun for the Devil
349(14)
The Merchant of Shadows
363(13)
The Ghost Ships
376(6)
In Pantoland
382(8)
Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost
390(7)
Alice in Prague or The Curious Room
397(12)
Impressions: the Wrightsman Magdalene
409(8)
UNCOLLECTED STORIES, 1970--81
The Scarlet House
417(12)
The Snow Pavilion
429(15)
The Quilt Maker
444(15)
Appendix Afterword to Fireworks 459(2)
First Publications 461

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