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Esmond and Ilia - An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
47.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
By one of the finest English writers of our time, a luminous memoir that travels from southern Italy to the banks of the Nile, capturing a lost past both personal and historical. Marina Warner's father, Esmond, met her mother, Ilia, while serving as an officer in the British Army during the Second World ...Show more
Fly Away Home by Marina Warner
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A long-awaited new collection of Marina Warner’s short stories. Like her award-winning novels, Marina Warner's stories conjure up mysteries and wonders in a physical world, treading a delicate, magical line between the natural and the supernatural, between openness and fear.
Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art .. by Marina Warner
49.99 AUD
Category: Art
Art writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity, and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues author Marina Warner in this new anthology. Here, some of Warner's most compelling writing captures the visual experience of the work of a diverse group of artists--with a notable focus ...Show more
Inventory Of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure and loss on the banks of the Nile.'Wonderful - a brave, inventive, touching distillation of memory and imagination' JENNY UGLOWInventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 194 ...Show more
Inventory Of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir by Marina Warner
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From one of our most iconic writers, a luminous memoir of post-war childhood, adventure, loss, and the banks of the Nile. Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner's beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English col ...Show more
Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body by Luke Syson; Sheena Wagstaff; Emerson Bowyer; Brinda Kumar; Schwartz Hillel; Marina Warner; Barti Kher; Jeff Koons (Commentaries by); Fred Wilson (Commentaries by)
120.00 AUD
Category: Art
Explores how artists from the European Renaissance to the global present have used sculpture and color to evoke the presence of the living body Since the earliest myths of the sculptor Pygmalion bringing a statue to life through desire, artists have explored the boundaries between sculpture and the phy ...Show more
Paula Rego: Nursery Rhymes - Nursery Rhymes by Paula Rego; Marina Warner
29.99 AUD
Category: Art
The bold, distinctive style of Paula Rego_s paintings has acquired for her not only an ever-increasing critical reputation but also an unusually large and enthusiastic following. Her be-ribboned little-girl heroines and fairy-tale characters seem firmly rooted in childhood, yet the innocence of this art ...Show more
Secret Commonwealth of Elves Fauns ... by Robert Kirk; Marina Warner (Introduction by)
24.99 AUD
Category: Mythology
Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners' many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgangers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirk's words, "a middle nature betwixt man and angel." For Kirk these ...Show more
The Debutante and Other Stories by Leonora Carrington; Marina Warner; Kathrine Talbot; Anthony Kerrigan
29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man’s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a psychoanalyst must decide what to do with the gift of a team of Russian rats trained to operate on humans. In this ...Show more
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