The Princess and the Goblin and Other Fairy Tales

ISBN-13: 9781554810079 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 390 str.

George MacDonald; Shelley King; John Pierce

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George MacDonald's Victorian fairy tales transformed the genre of fantasy. His work also shaped the next generation of children's literature: C.S. Lewis regarded MacDonald as a major influence, and writers as diverse as G.K. Chesterton and W.H. Auden acknowledged his significance. His best known story for children, The Princess and the Goblin, tells the story of a lonely child princess and her friend, a brave miner boy, in their battle with subterranean monsters. But MacDonald engages readers with more than the plot: enigmatic narrative asides and simple, but strikingly poetic language show why his work was an inspiration for modernist writers as well as those in fantasy and children's literature. Along with The Princess and the Goblin, this edition includes four other major fairy stories by MacDonald, as well as a selection of historical documents on the works' composition and reception, Victorian fairy tales, and MacDonald's other literary criticism.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
George MacDonald: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Illustrations
A Note on the Texts

The Princess and the Goblin
The Light Princess
The Giant’s Heart
The Golden Key
The History of Photogen and Nycteris: A Day and Night Märchen

Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews

1. The Princess and the Goblin

1. From “Christmas Book,” Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art (1871)
2. Sidney Colvin, Academy (1872)
3. From “Christmas Books,” Athenaeum (1871)
4. From “Belles Lettres,” Westminster Review (1872)
5. Netta Syrett, “On the Right Choice of Books for Children,” Academy and Literature (1903)

2. Dealings with the Fairies

1. London Review of Politics, Society, Literature, Art, and Science (1867)
2. “Dealings with the Fairies, ‘Where more is meant than meetsthe Ear,’” The British Quarterly Review (1867)
3. From “Our Book Club,” Eclectic Review (1867)
4. Athenaeum (1893)

Appendix B: MacDonald on the Imagination

1. “The Fantastic Imagination” (1893)
2. “The Imagination: Its Functions and Its Culture” (1867)

Appendix C: Victorian Fairy Tales

1. From John Ruskin, The King of the Golden River (1851)
2. From William Makepeace Thackeray, The Rose and the Ring or The History of Prince Giglio and Prince Bulbo (1855)
3. From Norman Macleod, The Gold Thread: A Story for the Young (1861)

Appendix D: MacDonald’s Composition and the Manuscript of The Princess and the Goblin

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