ISBN Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Per

Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and Other Classic Fairy Tales of Charles Per

Ten beloved fairy tales, given new life by the one and only Angela Carter

Little Red Riding Hood. Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty. Bluebeard. The Fairies. Many classic fairy tale characters might not have survived into the present were it not for Charles Perrault, a seventeenth-century French civil servant who rescued them from the oral tradition and committed them to paper. Three centuries later, Angela Carter, widely regarded as one of England’s most imaginative writers, adapted them for contemporary readers. The result is a cornucopia of fantastic characters and timeless adventures, stylishly retold by a modern literary visionary.

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About author(s)
Angela Carter (1940-1992) was born in Eastbourne, England. When she published her first novel, Shadow Dance, in 1966, she was immediately recognized as one of Britain’s most original writers. Eight other novels followed: The Magic Toyshop, Several Perceptions, Heroes and Villains, Love, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, The Passion of New Eve, Nights at the Circus, and Wise Children. Carter published four collections of short stories: The Bloody Chamber, Fireworks, Saints and Strangers (published in the U.K. as Black Venus), and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders. Her other writings include a book of essays called The Sadeian Woman, two collections of journalism, and a volume of radio plays. Carter wrote the screenplay for the 1984 film The Company of Wolves, based on her short story. In 2008 the London Times ranked her tenth on its list of 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945.