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L'Atalante by Marina Warner
Booksplease Price: $34.63L'Atalante is the work of French director Jean Vigo. It is a study of romantic love, told in a style influenced by surrealism, but still Vigo's own. This text is part of the 'BFI Film Classics'... -
Helen Chadwick by Marina Warner
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846382512Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Afterall PublishingPublisher... -
Sanctuary Marina Warner 9780008347543
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $33.24Sanctuary 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 Marina Warner 9780008347574
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $20.77Sanctuary 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... -
Marina Warner by Laurence Coupe 9780746309988
RRP: $39.25Booksplease Price: $38.01Warner is such a widely celebrated writer that it is a source of some wonderment that this is the first full-length study of her work. Warner is a novelist whose work is rooted in traditional forms... -
Myth and Landscape Marina Warner 9783868285895
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $56.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783868285895Author Marina WarnerFormat HardbackPage Count 136Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer... -
Marina Warner by Laurence Coupe 9780746311127
Booksplease Price: $154.98Warner is such a widely celebrated writer that it is a source of some wonderment that this is the first full-length study of her work. Warner is a novelist whose work is rooted in traditional forms... -
Temporale: The Cahiers Series by Marina Warner 9781909631434
RRP: $29.40Booksplease Price: $20.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909631434Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Sylph EditionsPublisher Sylph... -
Paula Rego: Nursery Rhymes by Marina Warner
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00The bold, distinctive style of Paula Rego's paintings has acquired for her not only an ever-increasing critical reputation but also an unusually large and enthusiastic following. Her be-ribboned... -
Indigo Or Mapping The Waters by Marina Warner 9780099154518
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $28.83Inspired by The Tempest, Indigo traces the scars of colonialism across continents, family blood-lines and three centuries. Rich, sensual and magical in its use of myths and fairytales Indigo explores... -
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner
Booksplease Price: $64.76The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as a seismograph for the shifts and settlings of... -
Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists by Marina Warner
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.59Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she... -
Signs & Wonders: Essays on Literature and Culture by Marina Warner
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64Since 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... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $25.87A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and... -
The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, And Fairies by Marina Warner
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $18.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681373560Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint The New York Review of Books,... -
Alone of All Her Sex by Marina Warner 9780394711553
Booksplease Price: $35.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394711553Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred... -
Fairy Tale: A Very Short Introduction by Marina Warner
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell... -
Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories by Lisa Propst
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies. But claiming to give voice to people who have been... -
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism by Marina Warner 9780198718796
Booksplease Price: $53.17The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as a seismograph for the shifts and settlings of... -
No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock by Marina Warner
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.63Ogres, 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... -
Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner 9780008347628
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.55A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and... -
Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists by Marina Warner 9780500295960
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $28.98An anthology of compelling essays by Marina Warner, one of our pre-eminent writers and critics. Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its... -
Marina Warner and the Ethics of Telling Silenced Stories by Lisa Propst 9780228004035
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $169.09Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies. But claiming to give voice to people who have been... -
Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale by Marina Warner
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.14From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell... -
Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media into the Twenty-first Century by Marina Warner
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $37.04Phantasmagoria explores ideas of spirit and soul since the Enlightenment; it traces metaphors that have traditionally conveyed the presence of immaterial forces, and reveals how such pagan and... -
Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds: Ways of Telling the Self by Marina Warner 9780199266845
Booksplease Price: $95.66Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation, vital to natural processes of generation and evolution, growth and decay, yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a... -
Crow by Ted Hughes
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep... -
Crow by Ted Hughes 9780571363162
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.07This anniversary edition celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970) - the vital, shape-shifting collectionby Ted Hughes. Its context, including the integral role of the... -
Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary by Marina Warner 9780198718789
Booksplease Price: $48.87This unique study of the cult of the Virgin Mary offers a way of thinking about the interrelations of Catholicism and ideas of ideal femininity over the longue duree. An ambitious history of the... -
The Book of Tbilisi: A City in Short Fiction by Gvantsa Jobava 9781910974315
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $18.54In the 26 years since Georgia declared independence from the Soviet Union, the country and its capital, Tbilisi, have endured unimaginable hardships: one coup d'etat, two wars with Russia, the cancer... -
Six Myths of Our Time: Little Angels, Little Monsters, Beautiful Beasts, and More by Marina Warner 9780679759249
RRP: $35.70Booksplease Price: $26.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679759249Author Marina WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist: The Life and Activism of Anbara Salam Khalidi Anbara Salam Khalidi 9780745333564
Booksplease Price: $56.49* Shortlisted for the Palestine Book Awards 2016* Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist is the first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab feminist. At a time... -
Once Upon a Place: Forests, Caverns & Other Places of Transformation in Myths, Fairy Tales & Film Holly Bellebuono 9780738779379
RRP: $37.78Booksplease Price: $27.24Popularized by Joseph Campbell, the hero's journey features narrative stages along which a person matures and transforms. But where heroes transform is just as important as what they do to get there... -
This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.12Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022 Guardian Art Book of the Year 2021 A dazzling, boldly original... -
The Thinking Woman by Julienne van Loon 9781978820081
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $106.76While women have struggled to gain recognition in the discipline of philosophy, there is no shortage of brilliant female thinkers. What can these women teach us about ethics, politics, and the nature... -
We Wrote in Symbols: Love and Lust by Arab Women Writers by Selma Dabbagh
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $22.05It is a little-known secret that Arabic literature has a long tradition of erotic writing. Behind that secret lies another - that many of the writers are women. We Wrote in Symbols celebrates the... -
Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Prof Christy Williams 9780814343838
Booksplease Price: $55.86Mapping Fairy-Tale Space: Pastiche and Metafiction in Borderless Tales by Christy Williams uses the metaphor of mapping to examine the narrative strategies employed in popular twenty-first-century... -
Global Shakespeare and Social Injustice: Towards a Transformative Encounter Chris Thurman 9781350335134
Booksplease Price: $69.51The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice. It requires a... -
The English Novel in History, 1950 to the Present by Prof. Steven Connor 9780415072311
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58Steven Connor provides in-depth analyses of the novel and its relationship with its own form, with contemporary culture and with history. He incorporates an extensive and varied range of writers in... -
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells 9780141439976
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $11.49'The father of science fiction' GuardianThe Time Machine is the first and greatest modern portrayal of time-travel. It sees a Victorian scientist propel himself into the year 802,701 AD, when he is...