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Despite that small niggle, though, it's hard not to be charmed and enlightened by ''Stranger Magic''. It is a rich and strange text, a gloriously inventive combination of energetic story-telling and erudition. I finished the book feeling as though Warner had taken me on a mental journey to a place that was both endlessly bizarre and immediately recognisable. ''Stranger Magic'' is a wonderful achievement, a book to delight scholarly fans of magic and mystery and a lesson in how to write both academically and well.
If you're looking for a companion retelling of the ''Nights'', try [[The Thousand Nights and One Night by David Walser and Jan Pienkowski]]. We've also enjoyed Warner's [[Fly Away Home by Marina Warner|short stories]].
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