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Burning your boats : collected short stories / Angela Carter ; with an introduction by Salman Rushdie.

By: Carter, Angela, 1940-1992 [author.]Contributor(s): Rushdie, Salman [author.]Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Vintage, 1996Description: xiv, 462 p. : 20 cmISBN: 0099592916 :; 9780099592914 :Subject(s): English fiction, 1945- - Short storiesDDC classification: 823.914
Contents:
The man who loved a double bass -- A very, very great lady and her son at home -- A Victorian fable -- A souvenir of Japan -- The executioner's beautiful daughter -- The loves of Lady Purple -- The smile of winter -- Penetrating to the heart of the forest -- Flesh and the mirror -- Master -- Reflections -- Elegy for a freelance -- The bloody chamber -- The courtship of Mr. Lyon -- The tiger's bride -- Puss-in-Boots -- The Erl-King -- The snow child -- The lady of the House of Love -- The werewolf -- The company of wolves -- Wolf-Alice -- Black Venus -- The kiss -- Our Lady of the massacre -- The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe -- Overture and incidental music for `A midsummer night's dream' -- Peter and the wolf -- The kitchen child -- The Fall River axe murders -- Lizzie's tiger -- John Ford's `Tis pity she's a whore' -- Gun for the Devil -- The merchant of shadows -- The ghost ships -- In Pantoland -- Ashputtle or the mother's ghost -- Alice in Prague or the curious room Impressions: the Wrightsman Magdalene -- The scarlet house -- The snow pavilion -- The quilt maker
Holdings
Item type Current library Home library Collection Shelving location Class number Status Date due Barcode Item reservations
Book Book Paul Hamlyn Library Paul Hamlyn Library London fiction collection Floor 3 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 07090595
Book Book Ruskin College Library Ruskin College Library 820.9 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R38772P0085
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Reprint. Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 1995.

The man who loved a double bass -- A very, very great lady and her son at home -- A Victorian fable -- A souvenir of Japan -- The executioner's beautiful daughter -- The loves of Lady Purple -- The smile of winter -- Penetrating to the heart of the forest -- Flesh and the mirror -- Master -- Reflections -- Elegy for a freelance -- The bloody chamber -- The courtship of Mr. Lyon -- The tiger's bride -- Puss-in-Boots -- The Erl-King -- The snow child -- The lady of the House of Love -- The werewolf -- The company of wolves -- Wolf-Alice -- Black Venus -- The kiss -- Our Lady of the massacre -- The cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe -- Overture and incidental music for `A midsummer night's dream' -- Peter and the wolf -- The kitchen child -- The Fall River axe murders -- Lizzie's tiger -- John Ford's `Tis pity she's a whore' -- Gun for the Devil -- The merchant of shadows -- The ghost ships -- In Pantoland -- Ashputtle or the mother's ghost -- Alice in Prague or the curious room
Impressions: the Wrightsman Magdalene -- The scarlet house -- The snow pavilion -- The quilt maker

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