by Angela Carter · Virago Press · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780860685791
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«Wayward Girls and Wicked Women» is the short story anthology edited by Angela Carter, published by Virago Press in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Anthology of stories celebrating rebellious, cunning and nonconformist women: writers such as Bessie Head, Katherine Mansfield, Djuna Barnes, Colette, Jamaica Kincaid and Ama Ata Aidoo. Their stories reclaim adventurers and revolutionaries as models for all women, and almost all of them refuse to be «nice».
It belongs to the Virago Modern Classics collection, where it is number 470, and was originally published in 1986.
For readers of short fiction with a feminist perspective who want to discover voices of twentieth-century women writers.
Angela Olive Pearce, who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realist, and picaresque works. She is mainly known for her book The Bloody Chamber (1979). In 1984, her short story "The Company of Wolves" was adapted into a film of the same name. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
