Monsters of Our Own Making: The Peculiar Pleasures of Fear, Paperback - Marina Warner

Reducere. Since the beginning of storytelling, monsters of all kinds have inhabited myths, legends, folklore, and oral traditions, and they continue to thriv...

An illuminating, lively history of paganism in the West.Publisher: Reaktion BooksAuthor(s): Liz WilliamsNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021D...

Reducere. From one of the most esteemed American poets of the twenty-first century comes a celebration of poetry and an invitation for anyone to experience i...

In early 1994 Marina Warner delivered the prestigious Reith Lectures for the BBC.Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Marina WarnerNumber of pag...

Publisher: RidinghouseAuthor(s): Marina WarnerIllustration(s): 32 colour illustrationsNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 241 x 22...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memo...

Reducere. DescriptionThough the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occu...

Publisher: Afterall PublishingAuthor(s): Marina WarnerIllustration(s): 32 colour platesNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 1...

A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile. 'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of mem...

Reducere. Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams rev...

Ogres, giants and bogeymen embody some of our deepest fears, dominating popular storytelling in various media, from classic fairy tales such as 'Pu...

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Reducere. Featured on NPR's Science Friday, an "ingenious" (The Wall Street Journal) and insightful guide to history's legendary and frightening monsters and...

Since the early 1970s, Marina Warner has been one of the most challenging, subtle and profound commentators on the culture of past and present, unr...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

DescriptionMarina Warner explores the tradition of personifying liberty, justice, wisdom, charity, and other ideals and desiderata in the female fo...

Sir Ian McKellen reads The Valley Of Fear, the last of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four Sherlock Holmes novels. First broadcast as BBC Radio 4 Book at...

DescriptionTrent's superior tasks him with helping a lady who came to the police to report the disappearance of her husband. The sergeant is stunne...

Shows how the figure of Mary has shaped and been shaped by changing social and historical circumstances and why for all their beauty and power, the...

Reducere. Byron Smith moved back to his family home in Little Falls, Minnesota, to care for his elderly mother and enjoy a quiet retirement from the US State...

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book "Whom to marry, and when will it happen--these two questions define every woman's existence." So begins S...

It wasn’t until she was nineteen that Agata Tuszyńska, one of Poland’s most admired poets and cultural historians, discovered that she was Jewish. ...

First published in 1943, this is a detective story where the detective is implicated in the crime and the hero is an enigma to the reader and himse...

Reducere. In Tokyo, in Los Angeles, in Antarctica, in the Solomon Islands . . . an intelligence agent races to put all the pieces together to prevent a globa...

Reducere. In this newest installment of the acclaimed New York Times bestselling series, Scotland Yard's Ian Rutledge is faced with his most perplexing case ...

Reducere. "It seems laughably inadequate to call Julia Fehrenbacher's On the Other Side of Fear a collection of poetry. It is that, of course-graceful, lyric...

Reducere. Prior to his death in 1993, Vincent Price was collaborating with Mr. Joel Eisner (author of the over 100, 000 copy bestselling Official Batman Batb...

A wide-ranging study of the influential British novelist and public intellectual writer Marina Warner and the ways she negotiates the dangers of ap...

An invaluable reference point for artists dedicated to their craft, The Found Art of Paint Making offers an easy to read guide on how to construct ...

Reissue of a riotous chronicle of one of the UK's greatest punk rock bands - the Clash

When the Scarecrow fires his fear cannon into the clouds, Batman and Robin find themselves awash in a . . . Rain of Fear! Will the heroes save the ...

Reducere. From the moment Rachel's family takes in her orphaned cousin Julia, strange things start to happen. Rachel grows suspicious but soon finds herself ...

DescriptionSurveillance cameras. Airport security lines. Barred store windows. We see manifestations of societal fears everyday, and daily news rep...

Reducere. The Citadel of Fear (1918) is a science fiction novel by Francis Stevens. Using her well-known pseudonym, Gertrude Barrows Bennett published some o...