num_pages: 295
description: 'Angela Carter has influenced a whole generation of fellow writers towards dream worlds of baroque splendour, fairy tale horror, and visions of the alienated wreckage of a future world. In Nights at the Circus she has invented a new, raunchy, raucous, Cockney voice for her heroine Fevvers, taking us back into a rich, turn of the 19th century world, which reeks of human and animal variety' The Times.
language: English
title: Nights At the Circus
titlecomplete: Nights At the Circus
characters: Jack Walser, Colonel Kearney, Sophie Fevvers
genres: Fiction, Historical, Magical Realism, British Literature, Literature, Classics, Feminism, Novels, Historical Fiction, Fantasy
ratings_count: 12856
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 473414400000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Random House (Vintage)