Expletives Deleted: Selected WritingsWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL MOORCOCK 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, Elizbaeth 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. |
Contents
Dictionary of the Khazars | 1 |
Landscape Painted with | 2 |
Irish Folk Tales Arab Folktales | 3 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
already American appears arrives beautiful become begins bread British called century characters Charlotte Brontë child collection common cook cookery course culture David dead death describes desire dream early English entire existence eyes fact father feel fiction finally Gilbert Hernandez girl gives hand happened heart Hollywood human imagination interesting Italy Jane Eyre John John Rivers Joyce kind Lady language later less literary lives London look means Miss mother moving narrative nature never night novel once Parent passion perhaps person possible Queen reader relation remains rich river Rochester seems sense sexual social Stead stories suggests tell things thought town tradition turns Vogue wanted whole wife woman women wonder writer young