Marina Warner
Marina Warner DBE is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London; a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her book Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, as well as the 2013 Sheikh Zayed Book Award.
Marina Warner DBE is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London; a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her book Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights won the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, as well as the 2013 Sheikh Zayed Book Award. See less
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Marina Warner book reviews
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Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment
Not just Grimm tales!
by Jo-Ann, Aug 24, 2015
These tales are for folks who love Grimm etal, but want to move into other styles of writing. French fairy tales are NOT for children; they contain risqué remarks, people caught in compromising ... Read More
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Veronica's Revenge: Contemporqry Perspectives on Photography
Not Just a Pretty Face
by Ludlow, Nov 26, 2009
As photography catalogs go, this one's a doozy, getting off to a quick start with not one but three frontispieces by Richard Prince, Gregory Crewsdson and Robert Frank AND, after the Table of ... Read More
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Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment
Nice Translation
These stories hold up very well with translation. Exceptionally well written also. I breezed through this book and found it accurate in the art of story telling. However, it was even more grim in ... Read More
