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ISBN: 9780701173319 - Stranger Magic Stranger Magic
Marina Warner

ISBN10: 0701173319  ISBN13: 9780701173319
Publisher: Vintage Chatto & Windus
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Nov 2011
Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a whole way of thinking, of dreaming the impossible. In this book, the author explores the figure of the dark magician or magus, from Solomon to the wicked uncle in "Aladdin"; the complex... More

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ISBN: 9780099479512 - From the Beast to the Blonde From the Beast to the Blonde
Marina Warner

ISBN10: 0099479516  ISBN13: 9780099479512
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Sep 1995
Looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of tales and to the social and cultural contexts in which the tales are told. This volume considers tales through the centuries, from the ancient sibyl to 18th... More

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ISBN: 9780099767411 - The Lost Father The Lost Father
Marina Warner

ISBN10: 0099767414  ISBN13: 9780099767411
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Apr 1998
The imaginary story of an Italian family from 1909 to the 1930s, with a framework in the present day. The narrator finds herself drawn into the passion and prejudice of her own invention, and we see how family memory, like folk memory... More

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ISBN: 9780099437727 - Signs and Wonders Signs and Wonders
Marina Warner

ISBN10: 0099437724  ISBN13: 9780099437727
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Oct 2004
Since the early 1970s, when Marina Warner reported from Vietnam and America, in startling essays, she has been one of the most challenging and profound commentators on the culture. This collection draws together essays, offering a retrospective of... More

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ISBN: 9783791345833 - Anselm Kiefer Anselm Kiefer
Marina Warner

ISBN10: 3791345834  ISBN13: 9783791345833
Publisher: Prestel
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Sep 2011
This book imaginatively evokes one of Anselm Kiefer's most significant exhibitions with magnificent reproductions of a provocative body of work representing his key themes, styles and mediums. Employing a dazzling variety of mediums... More

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ISBN: 9780099552048 - Wonder Tales Wonder Tales
Marina Warner

ISBN10: 0099552043  ISBN13: 9780099552048
Publisher: Vintage
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 16 Mar 2010
Gathers together a collection of fairy tales by some of the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries who used the fairy tale genre to comment on their own times and experiences. Marina Warner has gathered together a magical... More

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ISBN: 9780099433613 - Managing Monsters Managing Monsters
Marina Warner

ISBN10: 0099433613  ISBN13: 9780099433613
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: Reissue
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 21 Apr 1994
Marina Warner's 1994 Reith Lectures, in which she offered a definition of myth and its many contemporary faces, exploring the monster, children, mothers, strangers, and the idea of home. In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith... More

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ISBN: 9780099154518 - Indigo or Mapping the Waters Indigo or Mapping the Waters
Marina Warner

ISBN10: 009915451X  ISBN13: 9780099154518
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 18 Feb 1993
Inspired by "The Tempest", the novelist rewrites the drama of Ariel, Caliban and Sycorax in a Caribbean setting, exploring the colonial conflicts of an imaginary island and one family. The author's previous novel "The Lost Father" was Regional... More

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ISBN: 9780099284659 - The Leto Bundle The Leto Bundle
Marina Warner

ISBN10: 0099284650  ISBN13: 9780099284659
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 Feb 2002
A story full of myth, mystery and great imaginative power about a young woman who, searching for her lost baby son like Mother Courage, appears in different guises across different centuries and cultures. She is the eternal refugee but ultimately... More

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ISBN: 9780099588818 - Monuments and Maidens Monuments and Maidens
Marina Warner

ISBN10: 0099588811  ISBN13: 9780099588818
Publisher: Vintage
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Feb 1996
This work examines three very different allegorical uses of the female form: New York's statue of Liberty; the public sculptures of central Paris; and the images of Mrs Thatcher favoured by Fleet Street. More