'Exhilarating' Sunday Telegraph
Marina Warner spent her early years in Cairo, and was educated at a convent in Berkshire, and then in Brussels and London, before studying modern languages at Oxford. She is an internationally acclaimed cultural historian, critic, novelist and short story writer. From her early books on the Virgin Mary and Joan of Arc, to her bestselling studies of fairy tales and folk stories, From the Beast to the Blonde and No Go the Bogeyman, her work has explored different figures in myth and fairy tale and the art and literature they have inspired. She lectures widely in Europe, the United States and the Middle East, and is currently Professor in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex. She was appointed CBE in 2008. www.marinawarner.com
Warner writes with the delicacy of a tightrope walker...the result
is exhilarating
*Financial Times*
A fine sheen of intelligent humour...acute and alive
*Sunday Times*
Reminiscent of AS Byatt's short stories, Marina Warner's tales
glimmer with the cerebral pickings of a true culture vulture
*Independent*
Sparkles with her inimitable and sophisticated style. These tales,
both crisp and lyrical, form a cosmopolitan mixture of art history,
magic, fairytale and urban myth
*Independent on Sunday*
Exhilarating
*Sunday Telegraph*
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