Age
9-12
Grade
4-7
George Macdonald
The Princess and the Goblin: A Children's Fantasy Novel
Paperback
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform March 27, 2014)
The Princess and the Goblin - A Children's Fantasy Novel - By George Macdonald The Princess and the Goblin is a children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald. It was published in 1872 by Strahan & Co. The sequel to this book is The Princess and Curdie. Anne Thaxter Eaton writes in A Critical History of Children's Literature that The Princess and the Goblin and its sequel “quietly suggest in every incident ideas of courage and honor." Jeffrey Holdaway writing in 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. Eight-year-old Princess Irene lives a lonely life in a castle in a wild, desolate, mountainous kingdom, with only her nursemaid, "Lootie" for company. Her father the king is normally absent attending to affairs of state, and her mother is dead. Irene has never known about the existence of the goblins which lurk in the underground mines but her nursemaid Lootie does know about them. These goblins are grotesque and hideous beings, who centuries ago were human, but due to various reasons, they were driven underground and became malformed and distorted by their new lifestyle. This caused them to despise the humans above the ground and vow revenge against them.
- Series
- Children's Fantasy Novel's
- ISBN
- 1497469449 / 9781497469440
- Pages
- 150
- Weight
- 12.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 7.0 x 0.3 in.
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