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Vintage Fear: "The Complete Fairy Tales", "The Bloody Chamber" (Vintage Classic Twins)

Vintage Fear: "The Complete Fairy Tales", "The Bloody Chamber" (Vintage Classic Twins)
By Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Angela Carter

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"Vintage Fear" is a limited edition gift pack which consists of beautifully designed separate volumes of "The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm" and Angela Carter's groundbreaking reworking of these stories, "The Bloody Chamber." "Vintage Fear" is just one of ten "Vintage Classic Twins" to collect. Each twin consists of two books: a specially designed limited edition of one modern classic title and one established classic work. The books in each pair have been carefully selected to provide a thought-provoking combination. "The Complete Fairy Tales": The folk tales collected by the Grimm brothers created an astonishingly influential imaginative world loved by millions of readers from their childhoods. However, it is also a world where a woman serves her stepson up in a stew and an evil queen dances to death in a pair of burning shoes. Violent, funny, wise and beautiful, these stories have intrigued children, adults, scholars, psychologists and artists for centuries. This is the only complete edition of the tales available featuring the 279 stories in an acclaimed, modern, unexpurgated translation. "The Bloody Chamber": 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.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #221568 in Books
  • Published on: 2007-08-02
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 2
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 400 pages

Editorial Reviews

Terry Gilliam
The Complete Fairy Tales: The Brother's Grimm were responsible for
these fairytales that informed my life and made it as interesting, or as
confused, or as wondrous as it is...they scared the shit out of me when I
was a kid and they also gave me some of the most pleasure in life

Margaret Atwood
The Complete Fairy Tales: The stories, and the figures themselves,
have immense vitality, partly because no punches are pulled, and also
because no emotion is unrepresented

Observer
The Bloody Chamber: The Bloody Chamber's interweaving of retold
fairy tales demonstrates Angela Carter's narrative gift at its most mocking
and seductive