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Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art .. by Marina Warner
49.99 AUD
Category: Art
Art writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity, and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues author Marina Warner in this new anthology. Here, some of Warner's most compelling writing captures the visual experience of the work of a diverse group of artists--with a notable focus ...Show more
Forms of Enchantment - Writings on Art and Artists by Marina Warner
39.99 AUD
Category: Art
An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics. 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 captures the ...Show more
Inventory Of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
20.90 AUD
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
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Once Upon a Time : A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner
22.95 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas
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
Paula Rego: Nursery Rhymes - Nursery Rhymes by Paula Rego; Marina Warner
29.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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)
24.99 AUD
Category: Mythology
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
Sindbad the Sailor and Other Stories from the Arabian Nights by Laurence Housman; Edmund Dulac; Marina Warner
79.99 AUD
Category: Kid's Classics
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
The Debutante and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington; Marina Warner; Kathrine Talbot; Anthony Kerrigan
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
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