Wonder Tales

Download or read book Wonder Tales written by Marina Warner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.