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| Original Title: | The Virago Book of Fairy Tales / The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales |
| ISBN: | 1844081737 (ISBN13: 9781844081738) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Virago Fairy Tales #1-2 |
Angela Carter
Hardcover | Pages: 486 pages Rating: 4.16 | 3427 Users | 168 Reviews
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| Title | : | Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (Virago Fairy Tales #1-2) |
| Author | : | Angela Carter |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 486 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2005 by Virago (first published 1992) |
| Categories | : | Short Stories. Fantasy. Fairy Tales. Fiction. Classics. Feminism. Mythology |
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Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This 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.Rating Epithetical Books Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (Virago Fairy Tales #1-2)
Ratings: 4.16 From 3427 Users | 168 ReviewsRate Epithetical Books Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales (Virago Fairy Tales #1-2)
I normally love short stories, and fairy tales, but I struggled a little with this one. The book is a collection of stories from all over the world, all of which based around a female character. The stories are grouped into the following: Brave, Bold and Wilful Clever Women, Resourceful Girls and Desperate Stratagems Sillies Good Girls and Where it Gets Them Witches Unhappy Families Moral Tales Strong Minds and Low Cunning Up to Something Black Arts and Dirty Tricks Beautiful People Mothers and"There was woman who was old, blind and likewise unable to walk. Once she asked her daughter for a drink of water. The daughter was so bored with her old mother that she gave her a bowl of her own piss. The old woman drank it all up, then said: 'You're a nice one, daughter. Tell me - which would you prefer as a lover, a louse or a sea scorpion?' 'Oh, a sea scorpion,' laughed the daughter, 'because he would not be crushed so easily when I slept with him.' Whereupon the old woman proceeded to pull
Not sure if I should leave this on the 'currently reading' shelf. Reading it grinded to a halt weeks ago.What keeps me from reading this book is the following:The jumping about, from culture to culture, of the stories in sequence is really annoying. It's hard enough for someone to get into a story, written by a culture who don't seem to have chronology, subject or even logic dictate a story. But it makes it even harder that the next or preceding story is from a totally different culture, with a
A collection of folklore from around the world, tales of wise women, crafty witches and resourceful maidens the woman-centric theme doesnt intrude, just makes it a more cohesive collection than most fable anthologies. Theres an all-too-short yet interesting forward by Carter, and the woodcut illustrations are a lovely accompaniment.Considering that Ive been meaning to read something of the work of Angela Carter for a long time, Im a bit nonplussed to find myself starting with a book she compiled
In her Book of Fairy Tales, Carter has attempted what the Bro's Grimm did many a generation ago, and compile a compendium of folk and fairy tales from across a variety of cultures and countries. Ranging from Inuit to Hillbilly Carter doesn't edit, tone-down or Hollywoodise anything (the Inuit tales stand out as the most strange)In confession I must disclose that for me the tales ranged from, 'I can't follow this' to 'I'm following this but WTF?' to 'GREAT'Essentially this is an awesome book, but
Read this one for the Cardiff SFF Book Club. Im not the biggest fan of Angela Carter, having read a couple of her books back during my BA, but I do love fairy tales, so I was ready to give it a go anyway. Turns out, it isnt a book of fairy tales by Angela Carter (which to be fair, having read The Bloody Chamber, wouldnt be unexpected), but edited by her. She wrote a fairly scholarly introduction to it, acknowledging colonial bias, etc, etc, and commenting on the content. Im probably going to
This may be a collection of folk tales from around the world, documented as accurately as possible by Carter, but it still reads like a Carter book through and through. Maybe it's because she was influenced strongly by folklore and carried its vibe into her own writing, or could it be that Carter was unable to resist selecting tales that reflected her own world - I think both. The stories themselves have a wonderful quality that you only find in folklore. There's little in the way of devices and
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