Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and the Cult of the Virgin Mary
by Warner, Marina
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- first
- Condition
- Book VG+: spotting to boards, toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, tight, unmarked./DJ VG-: age/shelf wear, closed tear taped on front cover, front flap creased, NOT clipped ($15.00)
- ISBN 10
- 0394499131
- ISBN 13
- 9780394499130
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. first American edition. hardcover. Book VG+: spotting to boards, toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, tight, unmarked./DJ VG-: age/shelf wear, closed tear taped on front cover, front flap creased, NOT clipped ($15.00). 8vo from front flap: The Virgin Mary's importance is universal, almost incalculable; her cult, one of the richest and most enduring our world has ever produced. Yet in the deepest sense, she herself has remained unknown, remote, and exalted--concealed from our understanding behind the beautiful masks of legend, doctrine, and iconography--her true nature an enigma. Now in this extraordinary book, at once a feat of scholarship and a literary achievement of great beauty, Marina Warner penetrates the many layers of Mariology to bring us something remarkable: a "biography" of the Virgin that reveals her in all her guises from antiquity to the present day, from human woman to Queen of Heaven." #01863.
Synopsis
Marina Warner is a prize-winning novelist and cultural historian whose works include From the Beast to the Blonde , Managing Monsters (the 1994 Reith Lectures), Indigo and The Lost Father (shortlisted for the Booker Prize).
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1801
- Title
- Alone of All Her Sex
- Author
- Warner, Marina
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Book VG+: spotting to boards, toning/offset to endpapers, else clean, tight, unmarked.
- Jacket Condition
- DJ VG-: age/shelf wear, closed tear taped on front cover, front flap creased, NOT clipped ($15.00)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first American edition
- ISBN 10
- 0394499131
- ISBN 13
- 9780394499130
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Virgin Mary, Blessed Virgin Mary, cult, religion, christianity, catholicism, nonfiction, history,
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