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STRANGER MAGIC: CHARMED STATES & THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
by Warner, Marina
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0701173319
- ISBN 13
- 9780701173319
- Seller
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About This Item
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2011. 1st edition.. Hardback. Nearly Fine/Nearly Fine. Nearly fine condition in a nearly fine dustwrapper. A dazzling history of magical thinking and storytelling, its power to cross boundaries and its enduring legacy. As part of her exploration into the prophetic enchantments of Arabian Nights, the author retalls some of the most wonderful and lesser-known stories. Her narrative reveals that magical thinking, as conveyed by these stories, governs many aspects of experiences, even now. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour & b/w illustrations. Text block browned, contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lgithly rubbed at edges and lightly scuffed to rear panel.
Synopsis
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.
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- Stella & Rose's Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1826782
- Title
- STRANGER MAGIC: CHARMED STATES & THE ARABIAN NIGHTS
- Author
- Warner, Marina
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Nearly Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Nearly Fine
- Edition
- 1st edition.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0701173319
- ISBN 13
- 9780701173319
- Publisher
- Published by Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2011
- Keywords
- HISTORY HISTORY GENERAL ARABIAN NIGHTS
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