From The Beast To The Blonde

On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

By: Marina Warner

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Paperback | 7 September 1995 | Edition Number 1

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This brilliant and timely study looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of the tales, and to the social and cutural contexts in which the tales are told and re-told through the centuries, from the ancient sibyls to the eighteenth-century SALONIERES, from Angela Carter to Disney. The value and enduring popularity of folk and fairy tales derives not only from their mythic significance but, crucially, from the fact that their concerns are rooted in the material world. Lively, provocative and ground-breaking, FROM THE BEAST TO THE BLONDE is Marina Warner's first major work of non-fiction since the acclaimed MONUMENTS AND MAIDENS.

Industry Reviews

"Can itself evoke the sense of startled wonder that these tales first gave us" -- Laurel Graeber * New York Times * "She is a terrific writer and an original scholar. This is a landmark book" -- Victoria Glendinning * Daily Telegraph * "Just like the tale-tellers she celebrates...she's a weaver of enchantments, each sentence is like a silken knot charming you further into her web of meanings" -- Michelle Roberts * Independent on Sunday * "Consistently enlightening...this is a brilliant work: wise, witty and as magisterially omniscient as any Sibylline oracle" -- Nicholas Tucker * New Statesman and Society * "Open the book at almost any page and you will find something to fascinate you" -- Noel Malcolm * Guardian *

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