Fiction · 1872
The Princess and the Goblin
Princess Irene, living in a house in the mountains, discovers a secret staircase leading to her mysterious great-great-grandmother's rooms, and befriends a miner's son, Curdie, who has overheard the goblins living beneath the mountain plotting to flood the mines and kidnap the princess.
George MacDonald published the novel in 1872; its blend of fairy tale and psychological depth influenced later fantasy writers including C. S. Lewis and Tolkien.
Bibliomancer restores the 1872 text exactly as MacDonald wrote it.
Contents
- Chapter 1 — Why the Princess Has a Story About Her
- Chapter 2 — The Princess Loses Herself
- Chapter 3 — The Princess and—We Shall See Who
- Chapter 4 — What the Nurse Thought of It
- Chapter 5 — The Princess Lets Well Alone
- Chapter 6 — The Little Miner
- Chapter 7 — The Mines
- Chapter 8 — The Goblins
- Chapter 9 — The Hall of the Goblin Palace
- Chapter 10 — The Princess’s King-Papa
- Chapter 11 — The Old Lady’s Bedroom
- Chapter 12 — A Short Chapter About Curdie
- Chapter 13 — The Cobs’ Creatures
- Chapter 14 — That Night Week
- Chapter 15 — Woven and Then Spun
- Chapter 16 — The Ring
- Chapter 17 — Springtime
- Chapter 18 — Curdie’s Clue
- Chapter 19 — Goblin Counsels
- Chapter 20 — Irene’s Clue
- Chapter 21 — The Escape
- Chapter 22 — The Old Lady and Curdie
- Chapter 23 — Curdie and His Mother
- Chapter 24 — Irene Behaves Like a Princess
- Chapter 25 — Curdie Comes to Grief
- Chapter 26 — The Goblin-Miners
- Chapter 27 — The Goblins in the King’s House
- Chapter 28 — Curdie’s Guide
- Chapter 29 — Masonwork
- Chapter 30 — The King and the Kiss
- Chapter 31 — The Subterranean Waters
- Chapter 32 — The Last Chapter
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The text is free of copyright. This edition was prepared from an authoritative digitisation, processed by Bibliomancer under its own review protocol; every automated correction is recorded in its transformation log. Rights assessed for CA, EU, GB, US.
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