![]() The tales vary greatly in length, with the novelette "The Bloody Chamber" being "more than twice the length of any of the other stories, and more than thirty times the length of the shortest. ![]() The collection contains ten stories: "The Bloody Chamber", "The Courtship of Mr Lyon", "The Tiger's Bride", "Puss-in-Boots", "The Erl-King", "The Snow Child", "The Lady of the House of Love", "The Werewolf", "The Company of Wolves" and "Wolf-Alice". My intention was not to do 'versions' or, as the American edition of the book said, horribly, 'adult' fairy tales, but to extract the latent content from the traditional stories. ![]() The stories share a theme of being closely based upon fairytales or folk tales. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1979 by Gollancz and won the Cheltenham Festival Literary Prize. ![]() The Bloody Chamber (or The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories) is a collection of short fiction by English writer Angela Carter. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() There's some other violence and fighting, including super-strong 10-year-old Hugo Angel whacking adult goons with a baseball bat, and minor profanity ("damn," "hell"). Their 15-year-old daughter, narrator Tandoori (Tandy), the prime suspect, sets out to find who really did the deed. There are also several violent deaths, including those of wealthy Malcolm and Maud Angel, found poisoned in their New York apartment building. Parents need to know that plenty of lurid family secrets come to light in Confessions of a Murder Suspect, the first volume of a teen mystery series by James Patterson with co-author Maxine Paetro, including affairs, corruption, people who disappear, and children used as science experiments. ![]() 3) She cant trust anyone - maybe not even herself. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. One of Tandy's discoveries involves the nature of the pills that her parents have been giving all the kids - and what they have to do with each Angel's extraordinary abilities.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Summary Book Summary On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Helen has illustrated over sixty children's books. She became an apprentice photographer aged sixteen and went on to set up her own studio. Helen Craig is one of the UK's most successful children's illustrators. She has been writing the Angelina books since 1983 and now lives in London with her family. They decide it's time for Angelina to go to ballet school - she works hard for years and years until she becomes the famous ballerina Mademoiselle Angelina! Katharine Holabird went to Bennington College in Vermont, USA, and spent three years as a journalist in Italy. Her parents, Mr and Mrs Mouseling, are in despair - but then they think of a plan. ![]() She dances all the time - even when she's supposed to be doing chores or getting ready for school. Angelina is a pretty little mouse who wants more than anything else to become a ballerina. "Angelina Ballerina" - the much loved story by Katharine Holabird and Helen Craig. ![]() |