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By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780099154518
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1993
UK Publication Date: 18th February 1993
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780099433613
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1994
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Marina Warner's 1994 Reith Lectures, in which she offered a definition of myth and its many contemporary faces, exploring the monster, children, mothers, strangers, and the idea of home.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780099588818
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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This work examines three very different allegorical uses of the female form: New York's statue of Liberty; the public sculptures of central Paris; and the images of Mrs Thatcher favoured by Fleet Street.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780099428374
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear. whereas other stories give voice to the traditionally voiceless - the artist's model and the film double.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780099739814
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
UK Publication Date: 3rd February 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Ogres, giants and bogeymen embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular storytelling in various media, from classic fairy tales such as 'Puss in Boots' to the cannibal monster Hannibal Lecter, and from Frankenstein to Men in Black.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780099437727
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2004
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner 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, and making new and provocative connections.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780099165910
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1993
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. THE DRAGON EMPRESS also portrays a China in rapid decline as poverty, civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780099767411
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1998
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Like Visconti's film The Leopard, this magnificent novel paints in sensuous colours the story of a family. It brings to new life the ancient disparaged south of the Italian peninsula, weakened by emigration, silenced by fascism.

According to family legend, David Pittagora died as a result of a duel.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780099552048
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 16th March 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Hardback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780008347543
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd July 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Sanctuary is an ancient right. But what does it mean today Drawing on a lifetime of engagement with literature, myth, history and tradition from different cultures, Marina Warner's Sanctuary is an ambitious attempt to grapple with the sharpest questions that we are facing in today's world of global turmoil.


(Hardback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780500021460
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 13th September 2018
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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A series of enlightening perspectives on the art and visual culture of todays world from one of our pre-eminent writers.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780500295960
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2024
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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(Hardback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780500094105
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2019
UK Publication Date: 24th January 2019
Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
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Paula Regos anthology of traditional nursery rhymes, illustrated by her sometimes disturbing, but always arresting engravings.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780008347628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2022
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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 UGLOW


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780008347598
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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 UGLOW


(Hardback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780008347581
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 9th March 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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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 UGLOW


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9781844578887
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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L'Atalante is the work of French director Jean Vigo. This text is part of the "BFI Film Classics" series. Each volume in the series presents a personal commentary on the film, together with a brief production history and a detailed filmography, notes and bibliography.


(Paperback)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9780099284659
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2002
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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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.


(Paperback, Main)

By: Marina Warner

ISBN: 9781681373560
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 20th June 2019
Publisher: New York Review Books
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