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The Princess and the Goblin

by George MacDonald
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9791043138454
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Les Prairies Numeriques
  • Publisher Imprint: Les Prairies Numeriques
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 194
  • Original Price: USD 19.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 268 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Classics

The Princess and the Goblin is a children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald. It was published in 1872 by Strahan & Co., with black-and-white illustrations by Arthur Hughes. Strahan had published the story and illustrations as a serial in the monthly magazine Good Words for the Young, beginning November 1870.

Anne Thaxter Eaton writes in A Critical History of Children's Literature that The Princess and the Goblin and its sequel both "quietly suggest in every incident ideas of courage and honor".[1] Jeffrey Holdaway, in the New Zealand Art Monthly, said that both books start out as "normal fairytales, but slowly become stranger", and that they contain layers of symbolism similar to that of Lewis Carroll's work.[2]

Summary

Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a castle in a desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid for company. Her father, the king, is normally absent, and her mother is dead. Unknown to her, the nearby mines are inhabited by a race of goblins, long banished from the kingdom and anxious to take revenge on their human neighbours.

One rainy day, the princess explores the castle and discovers a mysterious and very old lady who identifies herself as Irene's great-great-grandmother and namesake. The next day, Princess Irene heads outside but is chased by goblins and rescued by a young miner, Curdie. Irene is on her way to meet with her great-great-grandmother again, but is frightened by a cat and escapes up the mountain. There, she sees the light from her great-great-grandmother's tower window that leads her back. Her great-great-grandmother gives Irene a ring attached to an invisible thread, which connects her constantly to home....

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