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Burning your boats : the collected short stories /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carter, Angela, 1940-1992
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : H. Holt and Co., 1996
Edition:1st American ed.
Subjects:
Manners and customs > Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • Early work, 1962-6 ; The man who loved a double bass
  • A very, very great lady and her son at home
  • A Victorian fable (with glossary)
  • Fireworks : nine profane pieces, 1974 ; 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 and other stories, 1979 ; 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, 1985 ; 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
  • American ghosts and old world wonders, 1993 ; 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.