Wonder Tales

Six Stories of Enchantment

By: Marina Warner

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Paperback | 4 October 1996

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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.

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The writers of these stories lived and worked in Paris during the 18th century, and between them consciously invented the modern fairytale. As Warner indicates in her fascinating introduction, the fairy story, or tale of wonder, was a powerful tool for the writers to comment upon the mores of their own time during a period when censorship was rife. For women writers, the fairytale also represented a means of escape from a life which imposed many constraints upon them. Passionate, remarkable, amusing and sometimes horrifying, these six stories remind us that the fairytale is a literary form to be reckoned with. (Kirkus UK)

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