From the Beast to the Blonde On Fairy Tales and their Tellers Tapa dura - 1994

Chatto & Windus, 1994-10-19. hardcover. Good/Good. 9x6x2. Stamp 'DAMANGED' on bottom page edges. Scuffs to dust jacket. Appears to have hardly been read.

Chatto & Windus, 1994-10-19. hardcover. Good. 9x6x2. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Hardback. Very Good.

Hardback. Good.

Hardback. Acceptable.

Penguin Random House. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1994. Edition Unstated. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. This study looks beyond the Freudian interpretation of fairy tales, to the tellers of the tales, and to the social and cultural contexts in which the tales are told and re-told through the centuries, from the ancient sibyls to the 18th-century "salonieres", and from Disney to Angela Carter. 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. Warner looks at favourite tales, from "Beauty and the Beast" to "Bluebeard", and a rich vein of other tales, in a historical perspective, showing how often the tellers were women - nurses, grandmothers, midwives, the 18th-century women who had no alternative literary voice - who produced tales to deal with actual, urgent dilemmas in the lives of their listeners: men, matrimony, sex and morality. Size: 180mm -… Leer más

First edition UK hardback, 1994 Chatto & Windus.The book is in fine condition, the dustjacket is in condition. It is not price clipped. Illustrated.

London; Chatto & Windus, 1994 1st. edition. hard cover dust jacket, black cloth, 458pp including index, bibliography and notes, colour and bw illustrations, excellent in excellent dust jacket. ISBN 0701135301

London: Chatto & Windus. 1994. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Near Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Only 'flaw' is discreet ownership signature to front free endpaper. Illustrated with colour and black & white plates. Includes Bibliography, Notes, and Index. xxi, 458 pages. "In this landmark study of the history and meaning of fairy tales, the celebrated cultural critic Marina Warner looks at storytelling in art and legend – from the prophesying enchantress who lures men to a false paradise, to jolly Mother Goose with her masqueraders in the real world. Why are storytellers so often women, and how does that affect the status of fairy tales. Are they a source of wisdom or a misleading temptation to indulge romancing." [Author's website]. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.