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The Princess and the Goblin

Author
George MacDonald
Read by
Raphael Croft
Language
English
Length
4 hours 7 minutes
ISBN
9781802566185
Published
15 May 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • goblin
  • princes
  • fairy tale
  • children
  • magic
  • bedtime
  • stories
  • folklore
  • good and evil
  • Magic Princess

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Description

In a mountain castle, Irene climbs to a mysterious great-great-grandmother; in the mines, Curdie overhears goblins tunnelling to seize her and flood the works. MacDonald braids an invisible thread with a night defence — castle and cottage sharing the siege, trust in what the nurse cannot see, courage as a child’s job. Children’s fantasy with adult bones and a tactical map underneath.

Author

George MacDonald (1824–1905) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and Congregational minister who helped invent modern fantasy. A mentor to Lewis Carroll, he wrote fairy tales and adult romances in which goodness has texture and evil has weather. The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie remain doorways into a kindly, serious magic — stories that treat children as capable of wonder and of courage.

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