Best Selling Books by Angela Carter

WINNER OF THE 1968 SOMERSET MAUGHAM PRIZE ''A picture of the Swinging Sixties without the romantic gloss of middle-aged memories'' SUNDAY TIMES ''Angela Carter has language at her fingertips'' NEW STATESMAN '' ... one of its most vivacious and compelling voices'' INDEPENDENT Centre stage in Angela Carter''s unruly tale of the Flower Power Generation is Joseph - a decadent, disorientated rebel without a cause. A self-styled nihilist whose girlfriend has abandoned him, Joseph has decided to give up existing. But his concerned friends and neighbours have other plans. In an effort to join in the spirit of protest which motivates his contemporaries, Joseph frees a badger from the local zoo; sends a turd airmail to the President of the United States; falls in love with the mother of his best friend; and, accompanied by the strains of an old man''s violin, celebrates Christmas Eve in a bewildering state of sexual discovery. But has he found the Meaning of Life?

Paintings and text capture the strange moods of cats and introduce the alphabet.

Gente extraordinaria y variada habita esta coleccion de cuentos. Algunos son gente real: Jeanne Duval, la musa desganada de Baudelaire que nunca pidio que la llamaran la Venus Negra, atrapada en el hastio terminal de la pasion del poeta... Edgar Allan Poe, con cara de actor tragico, que demuestra en todo lo que hace y piensa cuanta razon tienen sus amigos cuando dicen que "El hombre que bebe antes del desayuno no tiene remedio..". Y Lizzie Borden, tendida en cama en una calida noche de verano sonando con un parricidio... Otros personajes son completamente imaginarios, como la prostituta del siglo diecisiete que a pesar de si misma se transforma entre los indios en una buena mujer, o la nina, criada por lobos, indiferente y extrana, que no tolera la compania de los seres humanos. El "prodigioso nino de las sartenes" es un infante cocinero que aprende frances en libros de cocina, y en la obertura y musica incidental para El Sueno de una Noche de Verano examina la ambigua naturaleza del principe que ha provocado tantos problemas entre Oberon y Titania.

''Angela Carter''s writing is pyrothechnic - fuelled with ideas, packed with images and spangling the night with her starry language'' OBSERVER ''The boldest of English writers'' LORNA SAGE ''A great writer . . . A real one-off'' SALMAN RUSHDIE ''The scar drew her whole face sideways and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lop-sided, skin, features and all, dragged away from the bone. She was a beautiful girl, a white and golden girl, like moonlight on daisies, a month ago. And yet the men still hover around her, more out of curiosity than lust, and none more so than the wildly seductive, dangerous funny man, Honeybuzzard; lithe as a stick of liquorice, he is the demonic puppet master at the swirling centre of the tale.'' Carter''s heady first novel introduces one of her most enigmatic characters. Honeybuzzard spends his nights scavenging the contents of abandoned buildings and his days seducing and tormenting lovers, enemies, and friends. He and his best friend Morris scour the backstreets of London, leaving behind a trail of destruction in the broken hearts and dashed hopes of those they love, manipulate, and ultimately discard.

In the pursuit of magnificence, nothing is sacred,'' says Angela Carter, and magnificence is indeed her own achievement. One of the most acclaimed novelists of her generation, her work as a journalist and critic was no less original. Long autobiographical pieces on her life in South Yorkshire and South London are followed by highly individual inspections of ''abroad''. Some of her most brilliant writing is devoted to Japan - exotically and erotically described here - so perfectly suited to the Carter pen. Domestically, Angela Carter used her mordant wit and accurate eye to inspect England and Englishness as it manifested itself throughout the land. Then she turns to her own craft, and her extraordinarily wide-ranging book reviews are masterpieces.

''Wicked, wayward or otherwise, Carter''s classic collection is a very erudite expression of girl power'' MINA HOLLAND, GUARDIAN ''One of the century''s greatest writers'' SUNDAY TIMES This bestselling collection of stories extols the female virtues of discontent, sexual disruptiveness and bad manners. These are subversive tales by Ama Ata Aidoo, Jane Bowles, Angela Carter, Colette, Bessie Head, Jamaica Kincaid and Katherine Mansfield among others. They all have one thing in common; the wish to restore adventuresses and revolutionaries to their rightful position as models for all women. Reflecting the wide-ranging intelligence and deliciously anarchic taste of Angela Carter, some of these stories celebrate toughness and resilience, some of them low cunning: all of them are about not being nice.

Ecrit en 1967, ce roman féminin, qui a pour héroïne une nymphette, célèbre l''ingénuité perverse, propre à l''adolescence, où l''enfance et le monde magique des contes de fées sont encore proches. Il est marqué par l''esprit psychédélique de la fin des années 60.

Across a mysterious landscape. . . of ruin and wilderness the Professors are all that remain of human order in the world. Here crops are cultivated, books are still read, children are schooled. But outside the walls of their fortress villages, beasts roam and the land is peopled by savage, strangely costumed barvarians who raid and plunder. Marianne belonged to the people of civilization and reason -- but they young barbarian Jewel has taken her for his own, into a world of animal virility and savage splendor of heroes and villians.

When the departure of the parrots from the jungle causes misfortune to fall on her home, Miss Z sets out to find the birds and persuade them to return.