Marina Warner, Author Atheneum Books $25 (417p) ISBN 978-0-689-11645-2
Examining an impressive scope of materialart (Donatello, Vermeer, Judy Chicago), Greek mythology, the Bible, literature, linguistics and mass mediaWarner (Alone of All Her Sex) traces the different meanings which have been ascribed to the female...
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Marina Warner, Author Simon & Schuster $18.45 (318p) ISBN 978-0-671-67455-7
Shortlisted for the 1988 Booker Prize, this epic by the British author of In the Dark Wood and The Skating Party has all the ingredients for successful sales here. This multi-generational saga set in the south of Italy portrays a family altered...
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Marina Warner, Author Simon & Schuster $21.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-70156-7
The award-winning British novelist ( The Lost Father ) and feminist critic ( Monuments and Maidens ) produces a tour de force with this lavishly imaginative and sophisticated work. Invading and colonizing The Tempest , she restores Sycorax,...
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Marina Warner, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $35 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-15901-6
Notwithstanding the prominence of the Grimm Brothers and Charles Perrault, most narrators of fairy tales, asserts Warner, have been women--nannies, grannies, 18th-century literary ladies, sibyls of antiquity. In this richly illustrated, erudite,...
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Marina Warner, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $35 (435p) ISBN 978-0-374-22301-4
Noting an unprecedented and growing fascination with the grotesque in contemporary life, British cultural historian Warner (From the Beast to the Blond: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers) has amassed an eclectic compendium of fact, folklore, history...
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Marina Warner, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-374-18548-0
Prolific fiction and nonfiction writer Marina Warner draws on grand themes of history and belonging in her ambitious new novel, The Leto Bundle, in which a collection of cryptic documents and artifacts once belonging to Leto, a woman of the ...
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Marina Warner. Harvard/Belknap, $35 (560p) ISBN 978-0-674-05530-8
This remarkable study is an arabesque, and an intricate Persian rug of themes, eras, tales, and authors—of the Middle East and West, playing on “states of consciousness” as well as state-cultures. With a basic knowledge of Arabic from childhood as...
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Marina Warner. Oxford Univ., $18.95 (226p) ISBN 978-0-19-871865-9
If you’re looking for a brief yet thorough overview of the history of fairy tales, you’ve come to the right place. Rather than sticking to a strictly chronological history, Warner (Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights) offers a...
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Marina Warner. New York Review of Books, $19.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-68137-644-8
English professor Warner (Alone of All Her Sex) reimagines the post-war lives of her parents in this fanciful memoir. “Itemise the things that you know,” Warner writes, “because they belonged to them and through them became part of you.” The items...
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