There once lived a man who owned fine town houses and fine country houses, dinner services of gold and silver, tapestry chairs and gilded coaches; but, alas, God had also given him a blue beard, which...
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'Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.'
Angela Carter's playful and subversive retellings of Charles Perrault's classic fairy tales conjure up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, wily animals and incredible transformations. In these seven stories, bristling with frank, earthy humour and gothic imagination, nothing is as it seems.
This book includes Bluebeard , Little Red Riding Hood , Puss in Boots , The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood , Cinderella: or, The Glass Slipper , Ricky with the Tuft and The Foolish Wishes .
1979
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64 pages
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