The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

With a new introduction byJack ZipesA great writer . . . a burlesque artist of geniusSalman RushdieWith her wryly subversive and exuberant take on Perraults classic fairy tales, Angela Carter conjures up a world of resourceful women, black-hearted villains, desperate predicaments, wily stratagems and fantastical transformations.- Here nothing is as it seems - in Cinderella charm and a powerful patron prove more useful than beauty; in Bluebeard a brazen wife outwits her murderous husband; in Little Red Riding Hood smooth pelts hide the most dangerous wolves of all; and in Sleeping Beauty we learn that long engagements arent always the best.- By turns playful, frank, cruel and unnerving, these stories bristle with worldly common sense, earthy humour and gothic imagination.Her writing is pyrotechnic Observer