Marina Warner is a writer of fiction and cultural history who has published widely on fairy tales. Her books include
From the Beast to the Blonde and
Stranger Magic, winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. She is professor of literature, film, and theatre studies at the University of Essex and a fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford.
50 Ebooks por Marina Warner
Naomi Mitchison: The Fourth Pig
An enchanting collection that introduces the author and activist Naomi Mitchison to a new generation of readers The Fourth Pig, originally published in 1936, is a wide-ranging and fascinating collect …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€18.99
Ibn al-Sāʿī: Consorts of the Caliphs
Accounts of remarkable women at the world’s most powerful court Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were consorts to those in …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€15.99
Philip F. Kennedy & Marina Warner: Scheherazade’s Children
Scheherazade’s Children gathers together leading scholars to explore the reverberations of the tales of the Arabian Nights across a startlingly wide and transnational range of cultural endeavors. The …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€30.99
Ibn al-Sāʿī: Consorts of the Caliphs
Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the e …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€15.99
Marina Warner: Fly Away Home
Long-listed for the 2016 Edge Hill Short Story Prize Fly Away Home is Marina Warner’s third – and eagerly-awaited – collection of short stories. Inspired by fairy tales, legends, and mythology, this …
EPUB
Inglês
€8.39
Salley Vickers: Kiss and Part
What does it mean to ‘kiss and part’? This collection of previously unpublished short stories from a stellar list of contemporary women novelists is a literary celebration of the spirit of place. All …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€16.99
Marina Warner: Once Upon a Time
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 …
PDF
Inglês
DRM
€8.98
Marina Warner: Once Upon a Time
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 …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€8.96
Marina Warner: Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds
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 co …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€38.10
Marina Warner: Fairy Tale
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 …
PDF
Inglês
DRM
€6.72
Marina Warner: Fairy Tale
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 …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€6.71
Marina Warner: Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds
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 co …
PDF
Inglês
DRM
€38.54
Marina Warner: Alone of All Her Sex
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 chan …
PDF
Inglês
DRM
€23.55
Marina Warner: Alone of All Her Sex
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 chan …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€21.28
Marina Warner: Joan of Arc
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 person …
PDF
Inglês
DRM
€20.32
Marina Warner: Joan of Arc
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 person …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€22.46
Marina Warner: Wonder Tales
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-fem …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€8.99
Charles and Mary Lamb: Tales from Shakespeare
As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor s extensive library; as adults they began writing children s books together that also appealed to all generations. …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€6.99
Marina Warner: Forms of Enchantment
Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she cap …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€31.65
Marina Warner: No Go the Bogeyman
Ogres and giants, bogeymen and bugaboos embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular fiction, from tales such as ‘Jack the Giant Killer’ to the cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter, from the Tita …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€14.99
Marina Warner: Murderers I Have Known
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 openne …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€8.99
Marina Warner: From The Beast To The Blonde
Entrancing, multi-layered and as wittily subversive as fairy tales themselves, this beautifully illustrated work explores and illuminates the unfolding history of famous fairy tales and the contexts …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€14.99
Marina Warner: Managing Monsters
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 f …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€10.99
Marina Warner: Leto Bundle
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 …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€8.99
Marina Warner: Signs & Wonders
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 …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€12.99
Marina Warner: Monuments And Maidens
‘Why should Truth be a woman? Or Nature? Or Justice? Or Liberty? Not, certainly, because women have been more free, just, truthful, nor even (though this one has a double edge) more natural. Marina W …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€11.99
Marina Warner: Dragon Empress
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 millio …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€8.49
Marina Warner: Lost Father
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 emi …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€8.99
Susheila Nasta: Brave New Words
Fifteen specially commissioned essays from distinguished authors explore the place of the writer, past and present, the value of critical thinking, and the power of the written word. Their work artic …
EPUB
Inglês
€4.79
Abdelfattah Kilito: The Tongue of Adam
A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy for Abel. “These days, no one bothers to as …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€12.99
Marina Warner: Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art and Artists
An anthology of enlightening writing by an award-winning critic that engages with art in its social, political, and aesthetic contexts. Art writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluid …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€29.99
Marina Warner: Inventory of a Life Mislaid
A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.’Wonderful – a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination’ JENNY UGLOWInventory of a Life M …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€7.79
Edgar Gerrard Hughes: How Do You Feel?
An insightful and fun interactive guide to understanding the what, how, and why of your emotions. Almost every moment of our lives is suffused with emotion, yet we rarely think about what these emoti …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€12.99
S. L. Grey & Omar Robert Hamilton: Outcast Hours
These are the stories of people who live at night: under neon and starlight, and never the light of the sun.These are the stories of poets and police, tourists and traders; the hidden and the forbidd …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€7.65
Victoria Brittain: Shadow Lives
Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the ‘9/11 wars’: their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria B …
PDF
Inglês
DRM
€124.99
Victoria Brittain: Shadow Lives
Shadow Lives reveals the unseen side of the ‘9/11 wars’: their impact on the wives and families of men incarcerated in Guantanamo, or in prison or under house arrest in Britain and the US. Victoria B …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€13.99
Anbara Salam Khalidi: Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist
* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016* Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist is the first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab feminist. At a time when t …
PDF
Inglês
DRM
€124.99
Anbara Salam Khalidi: Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist
* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016* Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist is the first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab feminist. At a time when t …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€13.99
Caroline Bergvall & Josh Cohen: Refugee Tales
Modelled on Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the second volume of Refugee Tales sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained. …
EPUB
DRM
€7.70
H. G. Wells: Time Machine
‘The father of science fiction’ Guardian The Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802, 701 AD, when he is …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€5.49
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ: Kalīlah and Dimnah
Timeless fables of loyalty and betrayal Like Aesop’s Fables, Kalīlah and Dimnah is a collection designed not only for moral instruction, but also for the entertainment of readers. The stories, which …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€15.99
Warner Marina Warner: L’Atalante
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’ serie …
EPUB
Inglês
DRM
€15.04
Warner Marina Warner: L’Atalante
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’ serie …
PDF
Inglês
DRM
€14.98
David Freedberg & Claudia Wedepohl: Aby Warburg 150
Aby Warburg is regarded as one of the great pioneers of modern cultural studies. This book brings together texts by many of the most renowned researchers in the field who have been influenced by his …
PDF
Inglês
DRM
€59.00
Malcolm Jones: The Secret Middle Ages
The Secret Middle Ages is a controversial and completely fresh view of the medieval world through its rare and amazing artefacts. Using the wealth of medieval art, much of it unseen or ignored by mus …
EPUB
Inglês
€13.99
