The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography

6 best books like The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography (Edmund Gordon): A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, The Artificial Silk Girl, Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces, Heroes and Villains

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Author	Mary Wollstonecraft
ISBN	0141441259

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative femininity,...

A Brief History of Misogyny: The World's Oldest Prejudice

Author	Jack Holland
ISBN	0786718234

In this compelling, powerful book, the late Irish journalist and essayist Jack Holland set out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history? The result is an eye-opening journey through centuries,...

The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Author	Angela Carter
ISBN	0140235191

Desiderio, an employee of the city under a bizarre reality attack from Doctor Hoffman's mysterious machines, has fallen in love with Albertina, the Doctor's daughter. But Albertina, a beautiful woman made of glass, seems only to appear to him in his dreams. Meeting on his adventures a host of cannibals,...

The Artificial Silk Girl

Author	Irmgard Keun
ISBN	1892746816

In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature,...

Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces

Author	Angela Carter
ISBN	1844083675

The stories in this collection aren't simply Gothic. They are full of darkness without any source of light. Full of dark, ominous sexuality and murderous impulses. The set is primarily a tapestry of Japanese lore and urban wanderings, vindictive geishas lurking in the lantern-lit backstreets of...

Heroes and Villains

Author	Angela Carter
ISBN	0140234640

After the apocalypse the world is neatly divided.

Rational civilization rests with the Professors in their steel and concrete villages; marauding tribes of Barbarians roam the surrounding jungles; mutilated Out People inhabit the burnt scars of cities.

But Marianne, a Professor's...