The Princess and the Goblin (Apple Classics) - Softcover

MacDonald, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 059044025X ISBN 13: 9780590440257

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 1991

Synopsis

A little princess is protected by her friend Curdie from the goblin miners who live beneath the castle.

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Review

''The Princess and the Goblin'; and 'The Princess and Curdie' are two of the most unusual and haunting fairy tales ever written.'' --Guardian

About the Author

George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Known particularly for his poignant fairy tales and fantasy novels, George MacDonald inspired many authors, such as W. H. Auden, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. It was C.S. Lewis who wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence." Elizabeth Yates wrote of Sir Gibbie, "It moved me the way books did when, as a child, the great gates of literature began to open and first encounters with noble thoughts and utterances were unspeakably thrilling." Even Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 059044025X
• ISBN 13: 9780590440257
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 201