Something I read. Loved the first third struggled after that. #nightsatthecircus #angelacarter

The image has the words "Angela Carter Quote of the Day" over a sepia-tinted background of an old-fashioned sitting room, with gas lamps and antique furniture

This image has the same background and the quote "Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!”

Quote of the Day: Fevvers has some great lines in 'Nights at the Circus.'

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Image Description: The first image has a background of a sleeping woman in a black dress with blonde hair, reclining on a red velvet covered bed.

Image Description: The second image has a quote from 'Nights at the Circus', reading: “The life she lives in the closed world of dreams is now about to possess her utterly, as if her small, increasingly reluctant wakenings were an interpretation of some more vital existence, so she is loath to spend even those necessary moments of wakefulness with us, wakings strange as her sleepings.”

Quote of the Day: Mixing it up a little bit, with a scene of the Sleeping Beauty from Madame Shreck's dungeon in 'Nights at the Circus' (this book is WILD!)

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This effervescent passage from #nightsatthecircus always makes me smile 😊

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Nights at the Circus Is Sophie Fevvers, toast of Europe's capitals, part swa…

#NightsAtTheCircus a few years ago I discovered. Read the first few pages. Admired the authors ability to establish a kind of living breathing world. Afterwards confused it with Morgenstern's "Night Circus." Thought I might not find the right book again. goodreads.com/book/show/65...