Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights

by Marina Warner

Book Overview

Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytales, and folktales explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly, objects speak, dreams reveal hidden truths, and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the wondrous tales of the Arabian Nights, their profound impact on the West, and the progressive exoticization of magic since the eighteenth century, when the first European translations appeared.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674725859
• ISBN13: 9780674725850
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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