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  • Once Upon a Time

    A Short History of Fairy Tale

    by Marina Warner ...
    From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Alone of All Her Sex

    The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary

    by Marina Warner ...
    This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the changing symbolism of the Mother of God, Alone of All Her Sex holds up to the light different emphases occurring at different times, and highlights that the apparent archetype of a magna mater is ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Fairy Tale

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Marina Warner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Joan of Arc

    The Image of Female Heroism

    by Marina Warner ...
    The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as a seismograph for the shifts and settlings of personal and political ideals: Joan of Arc is the heroine every movement has wanted as their figurehead. In France, anti-semitic, xenophobic, extreme right parties have claimed her since the Action Francaise ... Read more

    $4.43 USD

  • Esmond and Ilia

    An Unreliable Memoir

    by Marina Warner ...
    By one of the finest English writers of our time, a luminous memoir that travels from southern Italy to the banks of the Nile, capturing a lost past both personal and historical.Marina Warner’s father, Esmond, met her mother, Ilia, while serving as an officer in the British Army during the Second World War. As Allied forces fought their way north through Italy, Esmond found himself in the southern ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sanctuary

    On Story and Shelter

    by Marina Warner ...
    Drawing on literature, myth, history, and tradition from different cultures, Marina Warner offers “a dazzling meditation on the idea of home, hospitality, and refuge” in our world of global turmoil (The Observer, UK).Sanctuary is an ancient right—a haven, a place of refuge and freedom from harm. In the classical world, it offered immunity to fugitives from justice; in medieval Europe it extended a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Wonder Tales

    Six Stories of Enchantment

    by 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 translations by celebrated ... Read more

    $11.29 USD

  • The Fourth Pig

    by Naomi Mitchison ...
    Series series Oddly Modern Fairy Tales
    An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readersThe Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging and fascinating collection of fairy tales, poems, and ballads. Droll and sad, spirited and apprehensive, The Fourth Pig reflects the hopes and forebodings of its era but also resonates with those of today. It is a testament ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Granada

    The Complete Trilogy

    by Radwa Ashour ...
    Translated by Kay Heikkinen ...
    A TOP 100 LITERARY WORK OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (THE ARAB WRITERS UNION) ~ RUNNER-UP TO THE WINNER OF THE 2025 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC LITERARY TRANSLATION ~ A *BOOK RIOT*BEST BOOK OF 2024“A magnum opus of prose fiction”—Marina Warner, author of Once Upon a TimeA multigenerational epic set at the collapse of Muslim rule in Me... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • L'Atalante

    by Marina Warner ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    L'Atalante is the work of French director Jean Vigo. It is a study of romantic love, told in a style influenced by surrealism, but still Vigo's own. This text is part of the 'BFI Film Classics' series. Each volume in the series presents a personal commentary on the film, together with a brief production history and a detailed filmography, notes and bibliography. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds

    Ways of Telling the Self

    by Marina Warner ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs in the landscape of magic, witchcraft, and wonder, and enlivens classical mythology, early modern fairy tales and uncanny fictions ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Down Below

    by Leonora Carrington ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figuresIn 1937 Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild—was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst ... Read more

    $8.99 USD