Table of Contents

Prologue
1: The worlds of Faery: far away and down below
2: With a touch of her wand: magic & metamorphosis
3: Voices on the page: tales, tellers, & translators
4: Potato soup: true stories/real life
5: Childish things: pictures & conversations
6: On the couch: house-training the Id
7: In the dock: don't bet on the Prince
8: Double vision: the dream of reason
9: On stage and screen: states of illusion
Epilogue
Further reading
Index

About the Author

Marina Warner's award-winning studies of mythology and fairy tales include Once Upon a Time (OUP, 2014) Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary (OUP, 1976; re-issued 2013), Stranger Magic: Charmed States & the Arabian Nights (Vintage, 2012), and No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Vintage, 1998). Her Clarendon Lectures Fantastic Metamorphoses; Other Worlds were
published in 2001 by OUP; her essays on literature and culture were collected in Signs & Wonders (Vintage, 2000), and Phantasmagoria, a study of spirits and technology, appeared in 2006 (OUP). In 2015 she was awarded the Holberg Prize, and in 2013 she was
awarded a Sheykh Zayed Prize and the Truman Capote Award. She was awarded a CBE for services to Literature in 2008. She is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, an Honorary Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the British Academy.

Reviews

Review from previous edition the book is an enchanted material object, and reading a journey toward knowledge and wisdom.
*Gramayre*

thoroughly enjoyable and scholarly account
*Times Literary Supplement*

elegantly concise
*Literary Review*

...this is a book to treasure. It really is the perfect introduction to the subject.
*Desperate Reader, Hayley Anderton*

wide ranging and handsomely produced
*Rowan Williams, New Statesman*

wise, witty, elegant, little book
*Amanda Craig, Mslexia*

This is a book to treasure.
*Helen Parry, Shiny New Books*

Marina Warner's newest book is as pocket-sized and potent as one might expect a short history of fairy tales to be...she manages to be astute without being intrusive...there is sharpness too.
*Shahidha Bari, Times Higher Education*

Warner is always intelligent, writes with great elegance and bubbles over with new ideas and impressions. Many will enjoy her style, wide range of literary reference and infectious enthusiasm.
*Irish Times*

Marina Warner's new book distills her work on the literary, cultural, psychological and social influence of fairy tales, old and new, into an elegant little volume. From fantasy to feminism - it is all here.
*Wall Street Journal*

For such a small book it carries a heavy load, but Ms Warner's insights are both surprising and rewarding.
*The Economist*

An expert and intruiging guide to the roots and triffid-like growth of a significant genre
*The Tablet*

a spellbinding cultural tour de force
*The Lady*

Marina Warner is our doyenne of fairy stories ... her scholarly knowledge is not just worn lightly but presented with a flourish
*Amanda Craig, Observer19/10/2014*

her light touch effortlessly imparts knowledge in your mind. A beautifully produced book, this will be a joy to anyone who loves stories.
*Patrick Neale, The Bookseller*