Six Myths of Our Time

Six Myths of Our TimeBy: Marina Warner Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do our culture's most hallowed legends inform the current debates over single mothers, the men's movement, and animal rights? In these six dazzlingly intelligent and provocative essays, the

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Their new home is rougher and more rustic than they expected—and a single night of tragedy shatters the family when the native Maori stage an uprising

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El is forced to confront her feelings for Ray—the feelings that she’s been desperately trying to keep buried

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from one of Britain's finest - and funniest - storytellers

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