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Author: Carter, Angela, Simpson, Helen

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 5 October 2023 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Vintage Quarterbound Classics’ series.

Hardback | 240 pages
136 x 207 x 24 | 298g

A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter’s feminist retelling of fairy tales – masterful, seductive and luminous. From familiar fairy tales and legends – Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the Beast, vampires and werewolves – Angela Carter has created an absorbing collection of dark, sensual, fantastic stories.

‘Magnificent set pieces of fastidious sensuality’ Ian McEwan’A quirky, original, and baroque stylist’ Margaret AtwoodVINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautifulINTRODUCED BY HELEN SIMPSON