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Wonder Tales
Jan 16, 2025 2:50 AM

Author:Marina Warner

Wonder Tales

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.

Reviews

Carver's stories celebrate some lasting aspects of the human condition, however minimal, conjuring up a quality of fellow feeling, which gives the stories a compelling, dry-eyed poignancy, a melancholy but intensely moving authenticity

—— William Boyd , Daily Telegraph

This dazzling little collection is a treat

—— Guardian

All the stories in this collection are superb. Each sucks the reader, with magical speed, into the hearts of the characters, while seeming to say almost nothing about them. And they are not always gloomy, these hearts

—— Independent

A collection of stories it would be hard to forget

—— Peter Kemp , Sunday Times

Galloway's ear for dialogue is astonishing, almost musical

—— Olivia Laing , The Observer

Scottish writer Janie Galloway has a reputation for going where more polite writers fear to tread..this includes some of the author's most distinctive work...this original collection will wake up the most jaded palate.

—— Emma Hagestadt , The Independent

Galloway can evoke a life, a relationship, just about the whole human condition, within ten brilliantly written pages

—— Daily Mail

Affectingly raw and full of surprises

—— Ophelia Field , Sunday Telegraph

Spikey, bleak stories you won't forget ... poignant stories, all of which stand immediate rereading

—— William Leith , Scotsman

Her stories are suggestively musical examples of rich, Glaswegian gothic

—— Alfred Hickling , Guardian

At last, Galloway's stories are back in print in one collection...savagely accurate, engaging and funny, she is one of our great contemporary writers

—— Independent on Sunday

A testament to the sharp eye and shrewd brain of Janice Galloway, one of Scotland's finest writers

—— The Herald

A writer of passion and virtuosity

—— Scotland on Sunday
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