num_pages: 486
description: Once upon a time fairy tales weren't meant just for children, and neither is Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales. This collection contains lyrical tales, bloody tales and hilariously funny and ripely bawdy stories from countries all around the world - from the Arctic to Asia - and no dippy princesses or soppy fairies. Instead, we have pretty maids and old crones; crafty women and bad girls; enchantresses and midwives; rascal aunts and odd sisters.
language: English
title: Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
titlecomplete: Angela Carter's Book of Fairy Tales
genres: Retellings, Short Stories, Mythology, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Classics, Feminism, Anthologies, Fiction, Folklore
ratings_count: 4313
series: Virago Fairy Tales
publisher: Virago