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Showing 1 - 12 of 31 results for “marina warner”
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  • 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

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • 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

  • Shadow Lives

    The Forgotten Women of the War on Terror

    by Victoria Brittain, Marina Warner ...
    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 Brittain shows how these families have been made socially invisible and a convenient scapegoat for the state in order to exercise arbitrary powers under the cover of the 'War on Terror'.A disturbing ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist

    The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi

    by Anbara Salam Khalidi ...
    * 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 the effects of the revolution and counterrevolution of the Arab Spring loom heavy over Middle Eastern politics, this book brings to life an earlier period of social turmoil and women's activism through ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $9.99 USD

  • The Secret Middle Ages

    Discovering the Real Medieval World

    by Malcolm Jones ...
    The Middle Ages are known as a god-fearing time, a time of hard work and of squalid living conditions for the majority of the population – or as a time of opulence that graced only the courts and halls of the reigning monarch. In The Secret Middle Ages, Malcolm Jones presents a completely fresh view of the medieval world that will blow all stereotypes out of the water.Using a wealth of little ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $11.39 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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  • 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

    $39.99 USD

  • The Tongue of Adam

    by Abdelfattah Kilito ...
    Translated by Robyn Creswell ...
    A playful and erudite look at the origins of languageIn 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 ask about the tongue of Adam. It is a naive question, vaguely embarrassing and irksome, like questions posed by children, which one can only answer rather stupidly.” So begins Abdelfattah Kilito’s The ... Read more

    $10.29 USD