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| Introduction | ||
| The Man Who Loved a Double Bass | 3 | |
| A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home | 11 | |
| A Victorian Fable (with Glossary) | 16 | |
| A Souvenir of Japan | 27 | |
| The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter | 35 | |
| The Loves of Lady Purple | 41 | |
| The Smile of Winter | 52 | |
| Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest | 58 | |
| Flesh and the Mirror | 68 | |
| Master | 75 | |
| Reflections | 81 | |
| Elegy for a Freelance | 96 | |
| The Bloody Chamber | 111 | |
| The Courtship of Mr Lyon | 144 | |
| The Tiger's Bride | 154 | |
| Puss-in-Boots | 170 | |
| The Erl-King | 186 | |
| The Snow Child | 193 | |
| The Lady of the House of Love | 195 | |
| The Werewolf | 210 | |
| The Company of Wolves | 212 | |
| Wolf-Alice | 221 | |
| Black Venus | 231 | |
| The Kiss | 245 | |
| Our Lady of the Massacre | 248 | |
| The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe | 262 | |
| Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night's Dream | 273 | |
| Peter and the Wolf | 284 | |
| The Kitchen Child | 292 | |
| The Fall River Axe Murders | 300 | |
| Lizzie's Tiger | 321 | |
| John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore | 332 | |
| Gun for the Devil | 349 | |
| The Merchant of Shadows | 363 | |
| The Ghost Ships | 376 | |
| In Pantoland | 382 | |
| Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost | 390 | |
| Alice in Prague or The Curious Room | 397 | |
| Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene | 409 | |
| The Scarlet House | 417 | |
| The Snow Pavilion | 429 | |
| The Quilt Maker | 444 | |
| Appendix: Afterword to Fireworks | 459 | |
| First Publications | 461 |
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| $99.99 | Digital |
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Anway Pimpalkhare
reviewed Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories on December 16, 2007
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Reading a short story by Angela Carter is the equivalent of visiting a friend who has travelled the world and now lives by herself in an apartment filled with cats, trinkets and incense. Some days, as you sit in this friend's living room, waiting for her to brew some exotic tea, the scent of burning incense lulls you into a reverie, the way in which the sunlight hits the smoke gives her living room a mysterious feel. At other times, your friend makes the mistake of lighting too many incense sticks, keeping the windows closed, the curtains shut; the items hanging on her wall suddenly look dull, the clothes hanging off her body tawdry, the bright red lipstick on her face wrong for the occasion.
When Carter is good, her stories transcend their fairy tale roots like dreams with hidden meanings. When Carter is bad, your mind drifts away from every sentence and all you can think of is skipping to the next tale.
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