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With a new introduction by Jack Zipes 'A great writer . . . a burlesque artist of genius' Salman Rushdie With her wryly subversive and exuberant take on Perrault's classic fairy tales, Angela Carter conjures up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, desperate predicaments, wily stratagems and fantastical transformations. Here nothing is as it seems - in 'Cinderella' charm and a powerful patron prove more useful than beauty; in 'Bluebeard' a brazen wife outwits her murderous husband; in 'Little Red Riding Hood' smooth pelts hide the most dangerous wolves of all; and in 'Sleeping Beauty' we learn that long engagements aren't always the best. By turns playful, frank, cruel and unnerving, these stories bristle with worldly common sense, earthy humour and gothic imagination. 'Her writing is pyrotechnic' Observer

Product code: 9780141189956

ISBN 9780141189956
Series Penguin Modern Classics
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) H198xW129xS6
No. Of Pages 112
In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition, fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. This book adapts the stories for modern readers of English.