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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