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Inventory Of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
Category: Biography Memoir
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 Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 194 ...Show more
Inventory Of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
Category: Biography
From one of our most iconic writers, a luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure, loss, and the banks of the Nile. Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English col ...Show more
Leto Bundle, The by Marina Warner
Category: Fiction
A story full of myth, mystery and great imaginative power about a young woman who, searching for her lost baby son like Mother Courage, appears in different guises across different centuries and cultures. She is the eternal refugee but ultimately, the survivor.
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body by Luke Syson; Sheena Wagstaff; Emerson Bowyer; Brinda Kumar; Schwartz Hillel; Marina Warner; Barti Kher; Jeff Koons (Commentaries by); Fred Wilson (Commentaries by)
Category: Art and Design
Explores how artists from the European Renaissance to the global present have used sculpture and color to evoke the presence of the living body Since the earliest myths of the sculptor Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have explored the boundaries between sculpture and the phy ...Show more
Long Ago and Far Away : Eight Traditional Fairy Tales by Marina Warner (Introduction)
Category: Fiction
Suddenly, fairy tales are everywhere. Up to ten major feature films have been made or are in production using as a basis traditional fairy tales that we think we are all familiar with. But are we? This collection reprints or retranslates the earliest versions of eight of those tales, and shows how the ...Show more
Love Stories by Lucy Peltz (Editor); Peter Funnell (Text by); Simon Callow (Text by); Marina Warner (Text by); Louise Stewart (Text by)
Category: Humour
The National Portrait Gallery's collections hold numerous portraits of creative partnerships. This book looks at the extensive collection of the Gallery and explores the role of love and the people featured both as sitters and artists. Drawing on recent scholarship, the exhibition will explore changing ...Show more
MANAGING MONSTERS SIX MYTHS OF OUR TIME by WARNER MARINA
Category: Culture
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 t ...Show more
Murderers I Have Known by Marina Warner
Category: Fiction
Marina Warner?s stories conjure up mysteries and wonders, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. This electrifying new collection offers fabulous images of saints and sinner, bats and night-ingales, pink flesh and putrefaction. ?Lightfooted ...Show more
Once Upon a Time : A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner
Category: Languages and Reference
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 travell ...Show more