Burning Your Boats

Burning Your Boats
First edition cover (publ. by Chatto & Windus)
AuthorAngela Carter
PublisherChatto & Windus
Publication date
July 20, 1995
ISBN978-0-701-16321-1

Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories (1995) is a posthumously-published collection of short stories by English writer Angela Carter.[1][2][3] It includes stories previously collected in her other short story collections: Fireworks: Nine Profane Pieces (1974), The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (1979), Black Venus (aka Saints and Strangers) (1985) and American Ghosts and Old World Wonders (1993) as well as six previously un-collected stories. The book also includes an introduction by author Salman Rushdie.

The collection consists of:

  • Early Work, 1962-6
"The Man Who Loved a Double Bass", "A Very, Very Great Lady and Her Son at Home" and "A Victorian Fable (with Glossary)".
"A Souvenir of Japan", "The Executioner's Beautiful Daughter", "The Loves of Lady Purple", "The Smile of Winter", "Penetrating to the Heart of the Forest", "Flesh and the Mirror", "Master", "Reflections" and "Elegy for a Freelance".
"The Bloody Chamber", "The Courtship of Mr Lyon", "The Tiger's Bride", "Puss-in-Boots", "The Erl-King", "The Snow Child", "The Lady of the House of Love", "The Werewolf, "The Company of Wolves" and "Wolf-Alice".
"Black Venus", "The Kiss", "Our Lady of the Massacre", "The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe", "Overture and Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Peter and the Wolf", "The Kitchen Child" and "The Fall River Axe Murders".
"Lizzie's Tiger", "John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore", "Gun for the Devil", "The Merchant of Shadows", "The Ghost Ships", "In Pantoland", "Ashputtle or The Mother's Ghost", "Alice in Prague or The Curious Room" and "Impressions: The Wrightsman Magdalene".
  • Uncollected Stories, 1970-81
"The Scarlet House", "The Snow Pavilion" and "The Quilt Maker".

References

  1. ^ "Burning Your Boats". Kirkus Reviews. February 15, 1996. Archived from the original on August 14, 2020. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
  2. ^ "Burning Your Boats". Booklist. February 15, 1996. Retrieved August 25, 2024.
  3. ^ "Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter". Publishers Weekly. April 1, 1996. Archived from the original on January 31, 2023. Retrieved August 25, 2024.