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The Complete Fairy Tales ( Penguin Classics )
The Complete Fairy Tales ( Penguin Classics )
Contributor(s): MacDonald, George (Author), Knoepflmacher, U C (Editor)
ISBN: 0140437371 EAN: 9780140437379
Publisher: Penguin Books
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: September 01, 1999
The Complete Fairy Tales brings together all eleven of George MacDonald's shorter fairy tales, including "The Light Princess" and "The Golden Key, " as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination." The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: fairies good and wicked, children embarking on elaborate quests, journeys into unsettling dreamworlds, life-risking labors undertaken. Though they allude to familiar tales such as "Sleeping Beauty" and "Jack the Giant-Killer, " MacDonald's stories are profoundly experimental and subversive. By questioning the concept that a childhood associated with purity, innocence, and fairy-tale "wonder" ought to be segregated from adult skepticism and disbelief, they invite adult readers to adopt the same elasticity and open-mindedness that come so naturally to a child.
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014043737
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The Princess and the Goblin
Contributor(s): MacDonald, George (Author), Hughes, Arthur (Illustrator), DuPrau, Jeanne (Introduction by)
ISBN: 0375863389 EAN: 9780375863387
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
Binding: Hardcover
Pub Date: January 26, 2010
One of the most successful and beloved of Victorian fairy tales, George Macdonald's The Princess and the Goblin""tells the story of young Princess Irene and her friend Curdie, who must outwit the threatening goblins who live in caves beneath her mountain home.
Macdonald's pioneering use of fanstasy as a literary medium had a great influence on Lewis Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Madeleine L'Engle, all great admirers of his work, which has remained popular to this day. "I write, not for children," he wrote, "but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty, or seventy-five."
This edition includes illustrations by Arthur Hughes.
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