THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN
Book Description
o Two of Scottish author George MacDonald�s most famous children�s fantasy books are bound together in this Kindle edition: & At The Back of the North Wind
The Princess and the Goblin
British author G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence".
The book revolves around eight-year-old Princess Irene, who lives a lo...
Moreo Two of Scottish author George MacDonald�s most famous children�s fantasy books are bound together in this Kindle edition: & At The Back of the North Wind
The Princess and the Goblin
British author G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence".
The book revolves around eight-year-old Princess Irene, who 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 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.
One rainy day the princess is confined to her nursery and runs upstairs to explore parts of the castle she has never seen. She finds a room at the top of the castle where sits a beautiful old lady, with silver hair but smooth and youthful skin. This lady tells Irene she is her great-great-grandmother.
At The Back of the North Wind
A young boy named Diamond fights despair and gloom and brings peace to his family. One night, as he is trying to sleep, Diamond repeatedly plugs up a hole in the loft (also his bedroom) wall to stop the wind from blowing in. However, he soon finds out that this is stopping the North Wind from seeing through her window. Diamond befriends her, and North Wind lets him ride on her back, taking him on several adventures. Though the North Wind does good deeds and helps people, she also doesaseemingly terrible things. On one of her assignments, she must sink a ship. Yet everything she does that seems bad leads to something good. The North Wind seems to be a representation of Pain and Death working according to God's will for something good.
About The Author
George MacDonald (1824 -1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister who pioneered the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll.
MacDonald was born on 10 December at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. His father, a farmer, was one of the MacDonalds of Glen Coe, and a direct descendant of one of the families that suffered in the massacre of 1692. The Doric dialect of the Aberdeenshire area appears in the dialogue of some of his non-fantasy novels.
His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many authors including W. H. Auden, C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, Walter de la Mare, E. Nesbit and Madeleine L'Engle. C. S. Lewis 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."[3]
Mark Twain, who initially disliked MacDonald, became friends with him, and there is some evidence that Twain was influenced by MacDonald.
Publisher | Pearl Necklace Books |
Binding | Kindle Edition (138 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized
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# of Pages | 409 |
ISBN-10 | B00MOL36S6 |
Publication Date | 08/12/2014 |
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