Black Venus

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A collection of short stories full of extraordinary people, some of them real - Jean Duval, Baudelaire's black mistress, Edgar Allan Poe and Lizzie Borden. Other characters flow from the author's imagination. She also wrote "Nights at the Circus", "The Magic Toyshop" and "Shadow Dance".

Publishers

Original publisher English (UK & Commonwealth): Vintage
English (UK & Commonwealth inc EU ex Canada & Australia): Chatto & Windus
English (US): Putnam
Czech: Dybbuk
French: Christian Bourgois
Galician: Edicions Xerais de Galicia
Japanese: Kawade Shobo Shinsha
Spanish: Minotauro

Angela Carter

Author

Angela Carter

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Zoë Waldie

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