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An exciting new work, richly illustrated, on the age-old images and stories about frightening men. In this provocative new work, Marina Warner goes beyond the terrain she covered in her widely praised From the Beast to the Blonde . She explores the darker, wilder realm where ogres and giants... read more
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In a poem written in Germany in 1782, the poet Goethe evoked the Erlking, or the King of the Alders, wooing a boy who is riding with his father through the dark forest: 'You sweet child, come, come with me!' he calls out, 'we shall play lovely games together, there are flowers of many colours by the water's edge, my mother has many garments of gold.'
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- Marina Warner (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Country: England
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0701165936
Page Count: 446
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Country: England
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0701165936
Page Count: 446
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- Dewey: 700.453
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