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The Princess and the Goblin
por MacDonald, George
- Usado
- Capa dura
- Condição
- Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Livreiro
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Campbellcroft, Ontario, Canada
Formas de pagamento
Sobre este item
London and Glasgow: Collins. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1958. Reprint. Hardcover. 256 p. 18.5 cm. Sound and square binding in cloth-covered boards, with silver stamped titles and illustration. Corners are somewhat softenend. The edges show a little fading. There is a prize inscription on the front free endpaper and some offsetting on both sets of endpapers. The inside pages are mostly clean, with two leaves having tiny dog-eared bottom corners and a couple of pages with a small stains to the margin. The page paper is toned. The dust jacket has wera to the folds and edges with some creases at the spine ends and a tiny chip and small tear to the top rear panel edge. Rear white panel is lightly soiled with some scratches. A classic children's fantasy tale originally published in the 1877. Princess Irene is rescued from goblins by a miner named Curdie. threatened by goblins. Illustrated with pen and ink drawings. Part of the Collins Seagull Library series. .
Sinopse
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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Detalhes
- Livreiro
- Homeward Bound Books
(CA)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 7089
- Título
- The Princess and the Goblin
- Autor
- MacDonald, George
- Ilustrador
- Will Nickless
- Formato/Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket
- Edição
- Reprint
- Editorial
- Collins
- Local de publicação
- London and Glasgow
- Data de publicação
- 1958
- Catálogos de livreiros
- Children's - Classics;
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