Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen : Fairy Tales from Around the World

By: Carter, Angela

Book Overview

'Strange Things Sometimes Still Happen' opens the doorway to a fantastic world of fairy tales, a world of mischievous maids, wily women, enchantresses, midwives, and crones. Here is a treasure trove of tales that could only have been collected by the celebrated Angela Carter, whom Salman Rushdie called the 'high sorceress' and the 'benevolent witch queen' of English literature.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0571198007
• ISBN13: 9780571198009
• Release Date: January 1970
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, Incorporated
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent collection for Kids and Adults, great strong women

This is an excellent book which I highly reccomend. Carter has collected folk tales from a wide variety of sources and cultures which have strong female characters in them. She uses the more orally based tales, rather than literary creations, which gives the stories some real zest. Instead of a collection of didatic stories about good feminist heroines, this is a collection of stories about strong women, both good and bad. Their craftiness may save their home or allow them to cheat their way to glory. I adore this collection, and reccomend highly to parents who want to give their children something to read that doesn't have namby pamby princesses who wait around to be rescued, or adults who loved fairy tales as a child.