The Princess and the Goblin

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George MacDonald's beloved and highly influential classic of children's fantasy, now in a beautiful gift edition for the Union Square & Co. Signature Children's Signature Clothbound Editions line.
One of the most successful and pioneering works of children's fantasy, The Princess and the Goblin tells the story of young Princess Irene and a miner's son named Curdie, who must defeat a group of goblins who live in caves beneath her mountain home. A nineteenth-century The Princess Bride for young readers, The Princess and the Goblin was an early influence on giants of fantasy literature C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien.

George MacDonald (Author)
George MacDonald (1824-1905) was born in Scotland and moved to London after studying science at Aberdeen University. He became a part of the literary scene of the times and wrote poetry and novels for adults, turning quite late in life to writing fiction for children, inspired by his large family.At the Back of the North Windwas published in 1871, a fantasy masterpiece which had first been serialized in a magazine. The two following years saw the publication of his other two much-loved novels for children,The Princess and the GoblinandThe Princess and the Curdie.

Ursula Le Guin (Introducer)
Ursula Le Guin was born in Berkley, California, in 1929, daughter of the writer Theodora Krober and the anthropologist Alfred Krober. Her published work includes twenty-one novels, eleven volumes of short stories, three collections of essays, twelve books for children, six volumes of poetry and four of translation. Among her novels are theThe Left Hand of DarknessandThe Dispossessed, both winners of the Nebula and Hugo awards,Always Coming Home, winner of the 1985 Kafka Award, andFour Ways to Forgiveness. In 2009 she won her sixth Nebula award forPowers. She died in January 2018 aged 88.

Penguin/Puffin published the first volume of the Earthsea books,A Wizard of Earthsea, in 1971. The Earthsea books have been translated into many languages around the world and are global bestsellers.