Inventory of a Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir

MARINA WARNER

William Collins

WARNER, M.: INDIGO OR, MAPPING THE WATERS. , 1992, xii 402 p. mapas.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Indigo

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage

<p>From 1861 to 1908 a woman, the Empress Dowager Tz'u-hsi, born the daughter of a minor mandarin, held the supreme power in China. Opportunistic, ruthless, malicious, she ruled over four hundred million people. Marina Warner's biography lays bare her complex personality: her extreme conventionalism; her hatred of "foreigners"; her passion for power and intrigue; her vanity and her delight in ritual; her extravagance and corruption and her love of gardens, painting and the theatre. THE DRAGON EMPRESS also portrays a China in rapid decline as poverty, civil war and foreign exploitation and invasion brought about the fall of the Ch'ing dynasty.</p>

Dragon Empress

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Leaders & Notable People

Murderers I Have Known

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SIGNS & WONDERS

Essays & Correspondence

From the Beast to the Blonde: On Fairy Tales and Their Tellers

<p>From classical enchantresses to Mother Goose to the Brothers Grimm, a cultural study of fairy tales shows what they reveal about the changing status of women, the ways of men, racial prejudice, and other serious subjects.</p>

From The Beast To The Blonde

Religion & Spirituality

In A Dark Wood

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