Signs & Wonders Essays on Literature and Culture

"Marina Warner's essays and lectures reveal a consistently honest and agile mind preoccupied with the powerful controlling fictions of our lives" Observer "She's a weaver of enchantments, each sentence a silken knot charming you further into her web of meanings" Independent on Sunday "Clever, witty, erudite and, above all, usefully explanatory, these signs and wonders are a literary cabinet of curiosities for our sadly desultory times" -- Alberto Manguel Sunday Times "As a leading explorer of a largely unchartered territory, Marina Warner is an impressive, inspiring but never intimidating guide" -- Peter Stanford Independent "She is a terrific writer and an original scholar" -- Victoria Glendinning Daily Telegraph