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  • Wonder Tales
    Marina Warner
    Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate extraordinary and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women who ingeniously used the fairy tale genre to comment on their own times and experiences. The stories are all in superb new transla...
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    23,86 €

  • Signs & Wonders
    Marina Warner
    Since the early 1970s Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present unravelling our webs of images ideas and beliefs and making new and provocative connections. This resonant collection draws together essays written over twenty-five years offering a wide-ranging retrospective of her developing ideas....
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    23,91 €

  • Murderers I Have Known
    Marina Warner
    Like her award-winning novels Marina Warner’s stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world treading a delicate magical line between the natural and the supernatural between openness and fear. In ’Natural Limits’ a bereaved woman contemplating the massacre of 11 000 virgins comes to terms with the unimaginable. The title story and ’Canary’ search for signs...
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    19,44 €

  • The Leto Bundle
    Marina Warner
    When a mummy in the Museum of Albion is unpacked it is found to contain a bundle of curious objects and documents which tell of the wanderings of an unknown woman Leto. On the run in a far-off era of civil strife Leto gives birth to twins shelters with wolves survives in a desert stronghold as the lover of its commander stows away on a ship loaded with plundered antiquiti...
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    24,37 €

  • The Lost Father
    Marina Warner
    Like Visconti’s film The Leopard this magnificent novel paints in sensuous colours the story of a family. It brings to new life the ancient disparaged south of the Italian peninsula weakened by emigration silenced by fascism.According to family legend David Pittagora died as a result of a duel. His death is the mysterious pivot around which his grand-daughter an independen...
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    23,70 €

  • Managing Monsters
    Marina Warner
    In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC. In a series of six lectures she takes areas of contemporary concern and relates them to stories from mythology and fairy tale which continue to grip the modern imagination.She analyses the fury about single mothers and the anxiety about masculinity in the light of ideals about male heroism and co...
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    19,64 €

  • The Dragon Empress
    Marina Warner
    From 1861 to 1908 a woman the Empress Dowager Tz’u-hsi born the daughter of a minor mandarin held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic ruthless malicious she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner’s biography lays bare her complex personality: her extreme conventionalism; her hatred of 'foreigners'; her passion for power and intrigue; her vanity and he...
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    22,59 €

  • Indigo Or Mapping The Waters
    Marina Warner
    Inspired by The Tempest Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores the intertwined histories of the Everard family and the imaginary Caribbean island where Ariel Caliban and his mother the healer and dyer of indigo Sycorax once lived. ...
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    24,37 €