Angela Carter was one of the most important and influential writers of
our time: a novelist of extraordinary power and a searching critic and
essayist. This selection of her writing, which she made herself, covers
more than a decade of her thought and ranges over a diversity of
subjects giving a true measure of the wide focus of her interests: the
brothers Grimm; William Burroughs; food writing, Elizabeth David;
British writing; American writing; sexuality, from Josephine Baker to
the history of the corset; and appreciations of the work of Joyce and
Christina Stead.
Please note that many of the essays in this collection also appear in
Shaking a Leg.