Fantastic Metamorphoses, Other Worlds - Warner, Marina (, Marina Warner is a prize-winning writer of fiction, criticism, and history)

Myths and tales of metamorphosis, from Leda and the swan to Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, command great excitement and pleasure among readers. This book explores stories of transformation, in poetry, fiction, and painting. It shows how ideas about human personality, such as the zombie and the doppelganger, develop in the encounter between cultures.