![]() She published two nonfiction books of interest: Nothing Sacred, selected writings, and The Sadeian Woman (1979). ![]() She worked as a journalist and as a professor at Brown and the University of Texas. She translated many fairy tales and wrote several collections of short stories, including The Bloody Chamber (1979) which won the Cheltenham Festival of Literature Award and was the basis for the powerful movie A Company of Wolves. Burning your boats : the collected short stories / Angela Carter with an introduction by Salman Rushdie. ![]() The Passion of New Eve (1977), a story of the end of the world and its possible new beginning with failed mankind replaced by a self-generating womankind. Carter's most successful novels include The Magic Toyshop (1967), which received the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and Several Perceptions (1968), winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and contributed stories to several. ![]() Often based on myth or fairy tale-borrowed or invented for the occasion-her work evokes the most powerful aspects of sexuality and selfhood, of life and death, of apocalypse. If I liked Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories by Angela Carter, what should I read next The Emperor of Dreams Everything Ravaged, Everything. ![]() A powerful and disturbing writer, Angela Carter created haunting fiction about travelers surviving their passage through a disintegrating universe. ![]()
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