The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald’s beloved and highly influential classic of children’s fantasy, now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Children’s Signature Clothbound Editions line.

One of the most successful and pioneering works of children’s fantasy, The Princess and the Goblin tells the story of young Princess Irene and a miner’s son named Curdie, who must defeat a group of goblins who live in caves beneath her mountain home. A nineteenth-century The Princess Bride for young readers, The Princess and the Goblin was an early influence on giants of fantasy literature C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.

George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a Scottish novelist, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneer of modern fantasy literature and the mentor of Lewis Carroll. In addition to his fairy tales, MacDonald wrote over fifty novels, short stories, poetry, literary criticism, and several works of Christian theology.

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The Princess and the Goblin

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