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Paula Rego: Nursery Rhymes - Nursery Rhymes by Paula Rego; Marina Warner
Category: Art and Design
The bold, distinctive style of Paula Rego_s paintings has acquired for her not only an ever-increasing critical reputation but also an unusually large and enthusiastic following. Her be-ribboned little-girl heroines and fairy-tale characters seem firmly rooted in childhood, yet the innocence of this art ...Show more
Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns ... by Robert Kirk; Marina Warner (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction
Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgangers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirk's words, "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." For Kirk these ...Show more
Signs and Wonders : Essays on literature and culture by Marina Warner
Category: Culture
Since the early 1970s, when Marina Warner reported from Vietnam and America, in startling essays like 'The Crushed Butterflies of War', she 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. This r ...Show more
Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by Laurence Housman; Edmund Dulac; Marina Warner
Category: Classic Fiction
The much-loved tales from The Thousand and One Nights first appeared in English translation in the early nineteenth century, based on French translations of versions of the stories found in Syrian and Persian manuscripts. The popularity of these ancient and beguiling tales set against the backdrop of Ba ...Show more
Stranger Magic by Marina Warner
Category: Culture
Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a whole way of thinking, of dreaming the impossible. The supreme fiction of magical thinking is the "Arabian Nights", with its flying carpets, hidden treasure and sudden revelations. As part of her exploration into the prophetic enchantments of the Ni ...Show more
Stranger Magic : Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner
Category: History
Magic is not simply a matter of the occult arts, but a whole way of thinking, of dreaming the impossible. As such it has tremendous force in opening the mind to new realms of achievement: imagination precedes the fact. It used to be associated with wisdom, understanding the powers of nature, and with te ...Show more
The Debutante and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington; Marina Warner; Kathrine Talbot; Anthony Kerrigan
Category: Short Stories
A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man’s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a psychoanalyst must decide what to do with the gift of a team of Russian rats trained to operate on humans. In this ...Show more
The Fourth Pig by Naomi Mitchison; Marina Warner
Category: Fiction | Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Ser.
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 collection of fairy tales, poems, and ballads that reflect the hopes and forebodings of their era but also resonate with those ...Show more
The Redstone Diary 2025 - Moments of Happiness by Julian Rothenstein (Editor); Marina Warner (Introduction by)
Category: Diaries
This year's edition of Redstone's beloved cult diary celebrates happiness and the exploration of joy in everyday lifeLife, the philosophers say, should be spent in pursuit of happiness. We are bombarded with advice on what fulfillment looks like: on how to be, what not to do, improvement plans, mantras ...Show more