Wonder Tales: Six Stories of Enchantment

Warner, Marina

Marina Warner has gathered together a magical collection of fairy tales by the great women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. These are passionate, extraordinary, and occasionally proto-feminist retellings of classic fairy stories by women who ingeniously used the fairy tale genre to comment on their own times and experiences. The stories are all in superb new translations by celebrated writers, including A. S. Byatt, Gilbert Adair and John Ashbery. With a brilliant intorduction by Marina Warner, recognised as one of our greatest experts on myth and fairy tale.

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Marina Warner revives obscure and subversive seventeenth-century French fairy tales in this enchanting literary compilation.

EAN

9780099552048

Publisher

Vintage

Published

16 March 2010

Pages

256

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