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by: George Macdonald, Arthur Hughes Average Rating: 5.00 out of 5 stars

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As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites,
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- Seeing is not believing---seeing is only seeing
I just read the Princess and the Goblin this evening, and it is a wonderful book which I highly recommend. In this book, George Macdonald, the masterful story teller (note: he is not necessarily a good writer, but he is a good story teller), tells the story of Irene the princess. Irene is the embodyment of innocence, and in MacDonald's book, innocence is the hero. Not only is the story iteself imaginative and just plain good reading, but it also has a point, something which many of today's fictional ... Read More

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- Dover Edition is not Unabridged, as marked on cover
I have two copies of this wonderful book in front of me...the Dover Juvenile Classics edition and the beautiful hardcover by Macmillan. Not only does the Dover edition omit all the sweet pictures, but right from the very first page it omits a sweet exchange between "Mr. Author" and an unnamed interlocutor--reminiscent of the story interruptions by the "real" Christopher Robin and the narrator of the Pooh stories. If something has obviously been cut out right from the first page, I'd bet other passages ... Read More

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- One of my favorites!
Eight-year old Princess Irene lives happily on the wet green mountain that is her home during the day. But at night, things are a different matter. No one is allowed outdoors during the night due to the goblins, nasty hideous creatures that come out only at nighttime.
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