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  • ISBN: 0140256407
  • Category: Humor
  • Author: Angela Carter
  • Subcategory: Humor
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Penguin Books; Reprint edition (August 1, 1996)
  • Pages: 208 pages
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  • EPUB size: 1520 kb
  • Rating: 4.1
  • Votes: 331
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The Magic Toyshop (1967) is a British novel by Angela Carter. It follows the development of the heroine, Melanie, as she becomes aware of herself, her environment, and her own sexuality. The novel starts with Melanie stealing her mother's wedding dress and venturing out in the night into her family's property. However, on her way home, she realises she forgot the door key and is forced to climb up a tree to get back into her room, destroying the dress in the process.

The Magic Toyshop book. The classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative works.

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The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter. The Magic Toyshop is a beautifully written, slightly Gothic and surreal story about love and terror; about sexual awakenings; about tyranny and small forms of resistance and protest

The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter. The summer she was fifteen, Melanie discovered she was made of flesh and blood. O, my America, my new found land. The Magic Toyshop is a beautifully written, slightly Gothic and surreal story about love and terror; about sexual awakenings; about tyranny and small forms of resistance and protest. I know that like me, many of you are planning to read it for Angela Carter month, and I cannot wait to compare notes. Especially because of the ending – it’s not that I disliked it, but I remain unsure of what to make of it.

An embellishment upon Carter’s love of the Gothic genre, The Magic Toyshop, published before The Bloody Chamber, paved the way for Carter’s signature style of decadently . Angela Carter’s Book Of Fairy Tales (2005).

An embellishment upon Carter’s love of the Gothic genre, The Magic Toyshop, published before The Bloody Chamber, paved the way for Carter’s signature style of decadently symbolic prose combined with conventional plot elements and allusions to literary classics. Beginning with tragic circumstantial events resulting in the protagonist, Melanie, becoming an orphan, the basis of events takes place in her family’s London home. Melanie’s Uncle Philip works in a toy shop and crafts puppets; he embodies a sinister and evil male character.

Angela Carter, Carmen Callil. She was in the night once again, and the doll was herself. Melanie walks in the midnight garden, wearing her mother's wedding dress; naked she climbs the apple tree in the black of the moon. Omens of disaster, swiftly following, transport Melanie from rural comfort to London, to the Magic Toyshop. To the red-haired, dancing Finn, the gentle Francie, dumb Aunt Margaret and Uncle Phillip.

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From the master of the literary supernatural and author of The Bloody Chamber, a startling tale of the redemptive power of physical and emotional love   One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to leave the comfortable home of her childhood, she is sent to London to live with relatives she has never met: Aunt Margaret, beautiful and speechless, and her brothers, Francie, whose graceful music belies his clumsy nature, and the volatile Finn, who kisses Melanie in the ruins of the pleasure gardens. And brooding Uncle Philip loves only the life-sized wooden puppets he creates in his toyshop. This classic gothic novel established Angela Carter as one of our most imaginative writers and augurs the themes of her later creative work.
Reviews about The Magic Toyshop (7):
Rko
The puppets cut the strings of the puppetmaster. The woman silenced by patriarchy finds her voice. The romantic day, or rather night, dreams of a teenaged girl turn into a grimy, grim reality.

This novel has all the earmarks of a feminist tale, tapping into the gothic feminist writings of Bronte, Alcott, Wharton, Shelley, Perkins Gilman, etc., but beyond Aunt Margaret finding her voice and the vanquishing of the creepy, grander, overt representation of patriarchy the story doesn't maintain it's feminist footing. Plus, I'm disturbed by the ambiguity of the fates of the characters...I don't need a big bow tying up the details nice and tidy, but this conclusion doesn't even bring the details into the same zipcode.

The power of this novel is the cache of the author, not the story.
Tantil
It's truly excellent because of the fairy tale/children's story element. It's also a story about life in England for young people in the early 70's. Suddenly, what was at the center of English social life is in ruins, and young people with imagination find themselves as misfits. This is merely my take on what the novel might represent. If you are not interested in reading books this way, you will still find The Magic Toyshop mesmerizing, entertaining, controversial, or whatever type of reading experience you wish to have. Get it.
Fordrekelv
After I wrote a mock fairy tale a professor I had suggested I read Angela Carter. She felt that I would love the satire and female strength within her books. So far I agree, this book is a funny, sweet, but in your face approach to certain genres. It is a really fun read, but doesn't waste your time. This book has many layers to it and it is breaks a lot of fairy tale taboos. It is not a children's book.
Wyameluna
Graphic story to begin with. Entertaining.
funike
There is not much to the overall plot of this book. The strength of it lies within the wierd characters and dialog among them. I felt a few things were thrown in for shock value like the unexplained severed hand in the kitchen drawer or the 'don't see it coming revealed secret' at the end... that could have been either left out entirely or at best given us a hint about the secret.
The peek hole was just down right creepy and some of the descriptions like the uncle's false teeth in the jar in the bathroom made me shudder. I had trouble with Melanie's attraction to her aunt's dirty brother with his nasty breath and teeth and unwashed stinky body. However it was this sort of thing that draws you in and makes you love the book because it IS SO macabre!
The ending is lousy but in reality the whole story was not that great but it's the characters and their weirdness that will keep you reading so even with a bad ending you will go away whispering... wow...
Qucid
An incredible book. It's inspiring, well written, and positively intriguing.
Nenayally
Angela Carter is one of my favorite authors. Her writing and use of language is truly astounding! Definitely highly recommended for fantasy lovers.
This book is just frankly silly! I read it as part of some research for a project. I enjoyed 'Nights at the Circus' a lot more.
I felt that the writing, though visually engaging, was poor.. If you are looking for subtlety and nuance, forget it with this novel.
I do find Carter's work entertaining but the character development is limited and each individual in this particular book is a huge cliche.
I had hoped to find the strangeness of the subject I.e. The making of extraordinary and sinister toys and puppets, much more compelling but I was disappointed.

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