The Arts of Angela Carter. A Cabinet of Curiosities, Paperback - ***

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Reducere. CABINET OF CURIOSITIES The History of the Supernatural in 20 Objects BY TROY TAYLOR During all of recorded history, man has been fascinated with th...

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The much-anticipated, first full authorised biography of one of the greatest, most imaginative writers of the twentieth century. Publication to coi...

What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene--the age of humans? Just as paleontologists lo...

The book provides a detailed overview of Carter's career, and examines her fascination with female sexuality from her earliest writings to her post...

Quoting hundreds of passages from Greek and Roman authors, this light-hearted book gives a vividly direct picture of the origins of modern medicine...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Douglas PrestonAuthor: Lincoln ChildIn an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are...

Reducere. Cabinets of curiosities were private collections of curious objects that were put together by aristocrats, rich merchants and travellers. Over the ...

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Reducere. Knowing that the most exciting math is not taught in school, Professor Ian Stewart has spent years filling his cabinet with intriguing mathematical...

Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by ma...

Postmodern Representations of the Feminine Body in a Selection of Works by Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson - Irina Ioana Bocianu

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Reducere. The exciting lives of great Karate masters such as you've never read. Their secrets, their training and their stories. Men who shaped the Karate, w...

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Publisher: Sussex Academic PressNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 159 x 234 x 22Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Sarah GambleRede...

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Young Alex Winchester woke up in a grey metal hospital bed surrounded by the peering eyes of strange malformed creatures. A giant oblong pink and b...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHA richly comic tale of the tangled fortunes of two theatrical families, the Hazards and the Chances, Angela Carter...

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Publisher: Distributed Art PublishersNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 184 x 234 x 16Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s):...

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Reducere. The man who envisioned and realized such landmark buildings as the Salk Institute, the Kimbell Art Museum, and the National Assembly complex in Ban...

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Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne ...

In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explo...

* In this, her first novel, Angela Carter tells a disturbing and delicious tale of shattered beauty and male camaraderie which shows one of the 20t...

Her writing is pyrotechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language' Observer

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"Sexuality is power, " wrote the Marquis de Sade. His virtuous Justine kept to the rules laid down by men, her reward rape and humiliation; his Jul...

THE PASSION OF NEW EVE is an extraordinary journey into the apocalyptic vision of the author Lorna Sage called 'The boldest of English writers'.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SALMAN RUSHDIEAs well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her l...

Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swan...or all fake? Courted by the Prince of Wales and painted by Toulouse-Lautrec, she is an a...

Reducere. DescriptionDubbed a "poet of the ordinary" by the Los Angeles Times, photographer Keith Carter came of age during the turbulent '60s and '70s, deve...

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Reducere. In their heyday on the vaudeville stages of the early twentieth century, Dora Chance and her twin sister, Nora--unacknowledged daughters of Sir Mel...