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by Angela Carter (Author), Jack Zipes (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 112 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics (2 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0141189959
  • ISBN-13: 978-0141189956
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.4 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 118,096 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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In eighteenth century France, Charles Perrault rescued from the oral tradition fairy tales that are known and loved even today by virtually all children in the West. Angela Carter came across Perrault's work and set out to adapt the stories for modern readers of English. In breathing new life into these classic fables, she produced versions that live on as classics in their own right, marked as much by her signature wit, irony, and subversiveness as they are by the qualities that have made them universally appealing for centuries.


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Angela Carter (1940 - 1992) was an English novelist and journalist, known for her post-feminist magical realist and science fiction works. Jack David Zipes is a Professor of German at the University of Minnesota whose publications and lectures on fairy tales have transformed research on fairy tales and their linguistic roots and socialization function.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Angela Carter takes translation too far, 28 Aug 2009
By Mr. J. Mackenzie (Sunderland, England) - See all my reviews
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Having purchased and read Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' so I could teach it to my A Level students, I needed to study Perrault's tales in their original (albeit translated) form.
I was somewhat irritated when I realised that Carter had apparently been rather 'liberal' in her translation.
As a result I will now have to look for another translated version.
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