The princess and the goblin
Book - 1993
A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie and her newly-discovered great-great-grandmother from the goblin miners who live in caves beneath the royal castle.
- Series
- Everyman's library children's classics
- Subjects
- Published
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New York :
Knopf : Distributed by Random House
c1993.
- Language
- English
- Item Description
- Sequel: The princess and Curdie.
Originally published: 1871. - Physical Description
- 238 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
- ISBN
- 0679428100
9780679428107 - Main Author
A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle
Review by Publisher Summary 2One of the most successful and beloved of Victorian fairy tales, George Macdonald’s The Princess and the Goblin tells the story of young Princess Irene and her friend Curdie, who must outwit the threatening goblins who live in caves beneath her mountain home. Macdonald’s pioneering use of fanstasy as a literary medium had a great influence on Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L’Engle, all great admirers of his work, which has remained popular to this day. "I write, not for children," he wrote, "but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."This edition includes illustrations by Arthur Hughes.
