BLACK VENUS

by Angela Carter

$65 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

London: Chatto & Windus The Hogarth Press, 1985 . Octavo, boards. First edition. Collects eight stories, including The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe and The Fall River Axe Murders. The major themes running through most of the eight stories is how historical forces, focused especially in the institutions of sexual, familial, and national power forms of authority that are subtly interchangeable, as Carter depicts

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