The princess and the goblin

George MacDonald

Blackie & Son, 1888 - Fiction - 176 pages

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

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Contents

• CHAP: 1
• THE MINES: 59
• THE GOBLINS: 67
• THE PRINCESSS KINGPAPA: 97
• THE OLD LADYS BEDROOM: 107
• A SHORT CHAPTER ABOUT CURDIE: 122
• THAT NIGHT WEEK: 135
• THE RING: 161
• CURDIES CLUE: 171

About the author

George MacDonald was born on December 10, 1824 in Huntley, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. He attended University in Aberdeen in 1840 and then went on to Highbury College in 1848 where he studied to be a Congregational Minister, receiving his M. A. After being a minister for several years, he became a lecturer in English literature at Kings College in London before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. In 1955, he wrote his first important original work, a long religious poem entitled Within and Without. He is best known for his fantasy novels Phantastes, The Princess and the Goblin, At the Back of the North Wind, and Lilith and fairy tales including The Light Princess, The Golden Key, and The Wise Woman. In 1863, he published David Eiginbrod, the first of a dozen novels that were set in Scotland and based on the lives of rural Scots. He died on September 18. 1905.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The princess and the goblin; Opie collection of children's literature ; 035:077
• Author: George MacDonald
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: Blackie & Son, 1888
• Original from: Oxford University
• Digitized: Oct 3, 2008
• ISBN: 0758319614, 9780758319616
• Length: 176 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology; Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / General