![]() ![]() What makes her special is her way of phrasing insights into the nature of the genre and into particular stories her scholarly knowledge is not just worn lightly but presented with a flourish. Once obscure, the field has become quite a crowded one, with Sara Maitland’s Gossip from the Forest and Philip Pullman’s Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm published recently, but Warner’s book is a little gem. Her book, From the Beast to the Blonde, was a memorable bestseller, and here she follows it and a lifetime of investigation into story-telling with Once Upon a Time: A Short History of the Fairy Tale. M arina Warner is our doyenne of fairy stories, the British equivalent to America’s Jack Zipes and Maria Tatar, only, it must be said, with a better prose style than either. ![]()
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