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The Princess and the Goblin (Children's Illustrated Classics, no.4).
by Macdonald, George
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- Hardcover
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Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
London and New York Dent and Dutton, 1949, hardcover. Later printing 1965. With 8 color plates plus line drawings by Charles Folkard. -- Hardcover, printed cloth covers. Condition: very good (corners lightly bumped; outer blank pages foxed; two color plates have small discoloration in margin) with good-plus dust jacket (bright; chipped at spine tips and flaps; spine and edges lightly tanned; price-clipped).
Synopsis
George Macdonald (1824-1905) was born at Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where his father was a miller and his family Congregationalists. As a young man he was ordained a minister of the Congregational church but he resigned after a disagreement with his deacons over doctrine, and from 1853 he earned his living by lecturing and writing, often in poor health, which meant periodic travelling in search of purer air for his lungs. In 1851 he married Louisa Powell, with whom he spent a long and happy life, sadly ending in grief when three of his thirteen children died of tuberculosis and he suffered a stroke that deprived him of speech for his last five years. He was a prolific writer, yet it is his fantasies for children that have survived. The Princess and the Goblin was the second of these, published first as a serial in Good Words for the Young , a periodical of which he became editor for a short time in 1869. About a hundred years later W.H. Auden wrote, 'To me, George MacDonald's most extraordinary, and precious, gift is his ability, in all his stories, to create an atmosphere of goodness about which there is nothing phone or moralistic. Nothing is rarer in literature.'
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- Bookseller
- Bucks County Bookshop IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 40496
- Title
- The Princess and the Goblin (Children's Illustrated Classics, no.4).
- Author
- Macdonald, George
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Dent and Dutton
- Place of Publication
- London and New York
- Date Published
- 1949
- Keywords
- NOISBN
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- Childrens Collectibles;
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