Wonder Tales

by Marina Warner (Editor)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $4.55

  A collection of fairy tales by women storytellers of the 17th and 18th centuries. They are retellings of fairy stories by women who used the fairy tale genre to comment on their own times. The stories are translated by authors such as Alan Hollinghurst, Gilbert Adair, John Ashbery and A.S. Byatt.

• Used

  Paperback
  1996

  $12.28

  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.