Marina Warner is a prize-winning novelist and cultural historian whose works include From the Beast to the Blonde, Managing Monsters (the 1994 Reith Lectures), Indigo and The Lost Father (shortlisted for the Booker Prize).
"Dramatic, informative and entertaining...a substantial and
provocative book." - TLS
"A work of remarkably elegant and eloquent scholarship." -
Observer
"Astonishing and enlightening.... packed with scholarship, imagery,
vivid selection, and wry contrastive comment." - Margaret Mead
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