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Wonder Tales: Six Stories of Enchantment
| Author: | Marina Warner |
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Vintage, 2012 Vintage, 2010 Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996 Vintage, 1996 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Fantasy |
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Synopsis
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 introduction by Marina Warner, who is recognised as one of our greatest experts on myth and fairy tale.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction by Marina Warner
- "The White Cat" by Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy, translated by John Ashbery
- "The Subtle Princess" by Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon, translated by Gilbert Adair
- "Bearskin" by Henriette-Julie de Murat, translated by Terence Cave
- "The Counterfeit Marquise" by Charles Perrault & Francois-Timoléon de Choisy, translated by Ranjit Bolt
- "Starlight" by Henriette-Julie de Murat, translated by Terence Cave
- "The Great Green Worm" by Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy, translated by A.S. Byatt
- Glossary
- Notes on the Authors and the Stories
- Background Reading
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