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Why the Princess Has a Story About Her
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About this book
Princess Irene is eight years old and lives in a great house on a mountainside, under which the goblins dig and plot in the dark. One rainy day she climbs a forgotten stair and finds, spinning at the top of the house, a beautiful old lady who says she is her great-great-grandmother, and whom nobody else believes in. Her gift is a ring and a thread too fine to see, which will always lead Irene where she must go; and when Curdie, the brave miner boy who drives the goblins off with rhymes, is caught inside the mountain, she must trust the thread to lead her in after him. MacDonald's best-loved fairy tale is a story about faith in what cannot be seen, and about a child who believes.
There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great country full of mountains and valleys. His palace was built upon one of the mountains, and was very grand and beautiful.
Contents
- 1 Why the Princess Has a Story About Her 4 min
- 2 The Princess Loses Herself 4 min
- 3 The Princess and—We Shall See Who 9 min
- 4 What the Nurse Thought of It 6 min
- 5 The Princess Lets Well Alone 4 min
- 6 The Little Miner 16 min
- 7 The Mines 6 min
- 8 The Goblins 11 min
- 9 The Hall of the Goblin Palace 13 min
- 10 The Princess’s King-Papa 7 min
- 11 The Old Lady’s Bedroom 13 min
- 12 A Short Chapter About Curdie 4 min
- 13 The Cobs’ Creatures 6 min
- 14 That Night Week 7 min
- 15 Woven and Then Spun 15 min
- 16 The Ring 3 min
- 17 Springtime 4 min
- 18 Curdie’s Clue 13 min
- 19 Goblin Counsels 8 min
- 20 Irene’s Clue 8 min
- 21 The Escape 17 min
- 22 The Old Lady and Curdie 10 min
- 23 Curdie and His Mother 14 min
- 24 Irene Behaves Like a Princess 4 min
- 25 Curdie Comes to Grief 8 min
- 26 The Goblin-Miners 4 min
- 27 The Goblins in the King’s House 10 min
- 28 Curdie’s Guide 6 min
- 29 Masonwork 4 min
- 30 The King and the Kiss 5 min
- 31 The Subterranean Waters 8 min
- 32 The Last Chapter 2 min
About the author
George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin · 1872
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- @book{macdonald1872princess, author = {MacDonald, George}, title = {{The Princess and the Goblin}}, year = {1872}, publisher = {Ochorus}, url = {https://ochorus.com/books/the-princess-and-the-goblin/} }