Signs & Wonders
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409028833
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 528

Signs & Wonders

Essays on Literature and Culture

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'A dazzling performance. This hefty collection must confirm Warner's reputation as one of the finest literary and intellectual minds at work in Britain' Caryl Phillips

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.

This resonant collection draws together essays written over twenty-five years, offering a wide-ranging retrospective of her developing ideas. Whether writing on Vietnam, Mrs Thatcher, the dollar sign and the twin towers, Queen Elizabeth I and incest, weeping Madonnas, zombies or fairytales, Marian Warner displays a rare gift for blending historical and anthropological insights with deft and perceptive readings on individual works.
  • Published: 1 August 2011
  • ISBN: 9781409028833
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 528
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About the author

Marina Warner

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. Her non-fiction works include The Beast to the Blonde, No Go the Bogeyman, Fantastic Metamorphoses and Stranger Magic, while her fiction includes the novels The Lost Father (shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Indigo and The Leto Bundle, and short story collections including Murderers I Have Known. She lectures widely in Europe, the United States and the Middle East and was appointed CBE in 2008.

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Murderers I Have Known
The Leto Bundle
No Go the Bogeyman
The Lost Father
Wonder Tales
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Praise for Signs & Wonders

As a leading explorer of a largely unchartered territory, Marina Warner is an impressive, inspiring but never intimidating guide

Peter Stanford, Independent

Clever, witty, erudite and, above all, usefully explanatory, these signs and wonders are a literary cabinet of curiosities for our sadly desultory times

Alberto Manguel, Sunday Times

Marina Warner's essays and lectures reveal a consistently honest and agile mind preoccupied with the powerful controlling fictions of our lives

Observer

She is a terrific writer and an original scholar

Victoria Glendinning, Daily Telegraph

She's a weaver of enchantments, each sentence a silken knot charming you further into her web of meanings

Independent on Sunday