A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story
Angela Carter\'s genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains includes an introduction by Robert Coover in Penguin Modern Classics.
Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world bu.
Outside, where the land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live the Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive.
Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and the other Professors.
A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story
Angela Carter\'s genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains includes an introduction by Robert Coover in Penguin Modern Classics