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Narrado por:
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Clare Corbett
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Toby Longworth
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De:
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Angela Carter
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Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit this rich, ripe, occasionally raucous collection of short stories. Some are based on real people - Jeanne Duval, Baudelaire's handsome and reluctant muse who never asked to be called the Black Venus, trapped in the terminal ennui of the poet's passion, snatching at a little lifesaving respectability against all odds....
Edgar Allen Poe, with his face of an actor, demonstrating in every thought and deed how right his friends were when they said, 'No man is safe who drinks before breakfast'. And some of these people are totally imaginary. Such as the 17th century whore, transported to Virginia for thieving, who turns into a good woman in spite of herself among the Indians, who have nothing worth stealing. And a girl, suckled by wolves, strange and indifferent as nature, who will not tolerate returning to humanity.
Angela Carter wonderfully mingles history, fiction, invention, literary criticism, high drama and low comedy in a glorious collection of stories as full of contradictions and surprises as life itself.
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
'I started to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in.' So says Angela Carter of this collection, written during a period living in Toyko. These exotic, sensuous stories represent Carter's first major achievement in the short story form. Lush imaginary forests, a murderous puppet show and an expressionistic vision of Japan: each one instantly conjures an atmosphere, dark and luminous in turn, and from the recognisably daring imagination of one of the great 20th-century stylists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
'The scar drew her whole face sideways, and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lopsided, skin, features and all, dragged away from the bone. She was a beautiful girl, a white and golden girl, like moonlight on daisies, a month ago.' And yet the men still hover around her, more out of curiosity than lust, and none more so than the wildly seductive, dangerous funny man Honeybuzzard; lithe as a stick of liquorice, he is the demonic puppet master at the swirling centre of the tale.
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The Passion of New Eve
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself.... New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5
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Nights at the Circus
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2 out of 5 stars
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acid trip
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Fireworks
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- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2
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4 out of 5 stars
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De: Angela Carter
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Shadow Dance
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- Narrado por: Kris Dyer
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 1
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1
'The scar drew her whole face sideways, and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lopsided, skin, features and all, dragged away from the bone. She was a beautiful girl, a white and golden girl, like moonlight on daisies, a month ago.' And yet the men still hover around her, more out of curiosity than lust, and none more so than the wildly seductive, dangerous funny man Honeybuzzard; lithe as a stick of liquorice, he is the demonic puppet master at the swirling centre of the tale.
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The Passion of New Eve
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- Narrado por: Piers Hampton
- Duración: 8 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 19
I know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape. Not a woman, no: both more and less than a real woman. Now I am a being as mythic and monstrous as Mother herself.... New York has become the City of Dreadful Night where dissolute Leilah performs a dance of chaos for Evelyn.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Robin H. en 01-29-20
De: Angela Carter
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Shaking a Leg
- De: Angela Carter
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 34 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 5
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 5
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Nights at the Circus
- De: Angela Carter
- Narrado por: Adjoa Andoh
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 58
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- 05-16-24
Brilliant book, BUT they don’t name the short stories in the chapter list
I love Angela Carter’s short stories. I cannot tell you the level of thrilled I was when they became available on Audible. The stories are great, the performances are excellent. That said, this is a book of short stories, each story a chapter. Do they show the chapter titles? No, no they don’t. Which is just ridiculous. Her short story books are not meant to be read straight through. It is so irritating that it takes this wonderful book and brings the rating down. It’s like having a cookbook without listing the names of the recipes. A couple of her short story collections here on Audible are like this. The Bloody Chamber is not.
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