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.
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.