A beautiful hardback edition of Angela Carter's feminist retelling of fairy tales - masterful
seductive and luminous. 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. 'Magnificent set pieces of fastidious
sensuality' Ian McEwan 'A quirky original and baroque stylist' Margaret Atwood VINTAGE
QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS: Bound to be beautiful INTRODUCED BY HELEN SIMPSON