The Princess and the Goblin

The Princess and the Goblin tells the magical story of Princess Irene and her journey from the world of the mundane into a world of faith and courage that sees beneath and beyond the surfaces. Considered the grandfather of modern fantasy novels George MacDonald first published this novel in serial form from November 1870 to June 1871 in Good Words for the Young and then as a complete volume in 1872. Our rejuvenated edition makes the story more readable by updating spelling breaking up very long paragraphs and replacing quaint but confusing punctuation with more conventional patterns.About this book G. K. Chesteron writes I for one can really testify to a book that has made a difference to my whole existence which helped me to see things in a certain way from the start; a vision of things which even so real a revolution as a change of religious allegiance has substantially only crowned and confirmed. Of all the stories I have read including even all the novels of the same novelist it remains the most real the most like life. It is called The Princess and the Goblin and is by George MacDonald.Madeleine LEngle writes I loved George MacDonald beginning with The Princess and the Goblin and The Princess and Curdie. Like all great fantasists he has taught me about life life in eternity rather than chronology life in that time in which we are real.W.H. Auden writes The Princess and the Goblin is in my opinion the only English childrens book in the same class as the Alice books.Although this story was originally written for children dont assume that this is a childrens book! I write not for children MacDonald wrote but for the child-like whether they be five or fifty or seventy-five.