![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Princess Irene makes friends with a Miner boy named Curdie, when he protects her and her nurse from being attacked by goblins. The Princess and the Goblin is a classic children's fairy-tale. "It was foolish indeed-thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit spot for the goblin creature to eat her in his leisure but that is the way fear serves us: it always sides with the thing we are afraid of." These and five other beguiling tales, all delightfully illustrated by famed pre-Raphaelite painter Arthur Hughes, are sure to charm readers of all ages - those already familiar with MacDonald and those about to meet him for the first time. ![]() And in "The Giant's Heart," the monster in question is truly heartless, for he's hidden his heart, and it's up to two determined children to find the awful thing and put an end to the colossal ogre. What the key will open, though, is part of its mystery. (Gravity, it seems, doesn't affect her!) A little boy in "The Golden Key" is told he can find a magical key at the end of the rainbow. In "The Light Princess," a young royal, bewitched at birth by her spiteful aunt, is cursed with uncontrollable bouts of lightness. So do magical lands, sinister monsters, giants, ogres, and other creatures from the realm of the imagination. Good and evil fairies abound in this rich collection of compelling tales by one of the foremost fantasy writers of the nineteenth century. ![]()
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