Summary
Angela Carter was a storytelling sorceress, the literary godmother of Neil Gaiman, David Mitchell, Audrey Niffenegger, J. K. Rowling, Kelly Link, and other contemporary masters of supernatural fiction. In her masterpiece, The Bloody Chamber—which includes the story that is the basis of Neil Jordan’s 1984 movie The Company of Wolves—she spins subversively dark and sensual versions of familiar fairy tales and legends like “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Bluebeard,” “Puss in Boots,” and “Beauty and the Beast,” giving them exhilarating new life in a style steeped in the romantic trappings of the gothic tradition.
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The Bloody Chamber Information
Publisher : Penguin Classics; Reprint edition (May 26, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 0143107615
ISBN-13 : 978-0143107613
Item Weight : 7 ounces
Dimensions : 8.5 x 5.43 x 0.43 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #12,688 in Books
About the Author
Angela Carter was born in 1940. She lived in Japan, the United States and Australia. Her first novel, Shadow Dance, was published in 1965. Her next book, The Magic Toyshop, won the John Llewllyn Rhys Prize and the next, Several Perceptions, the Somerset Maugham Award. She died in February 1992.
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Conclusion
The heroine is saved from the Marquis by her mother, who shoots him dead. The heroine inherits the Marquis’s fortune, but gives most of it away to charity. The castle is turned into a school for the blind, and the bloody chamber is sealed and buried. The heroine starts a music school outside Paris, and she lives with her mother and Jean-Yves.
