Marina Warner

Marina Warner's latest book, Stranger Magic, is a dazzling history of magical thinking, exploring the power of the Arabian Nights and its impact in the West, and retelling some of its wondrous tales. Writers and artists in every medium have found themselves by adopting Oriental disguise. With startling originality and impeccable research, Warner shows how magic, in the deepest sense, helped to create the modern world, and how profoundly it is still inscribed in the way we think today. Part of Aye Write!

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