Young Princess Irene's belief in her great-grandmother's powers becomes essential as she and the miner Curdie work to foil the sinister Goblin plot against the king and his palace. Gran lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs, and spins a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet strong enough to lead the Princess back home.

La Princesse et le Goblin

"Come oot o' the gutter, ye nickum!" cried, in harsh, half-masculine voice, a woman standing on the curbstone of a short, narrow, dirty lane, at right angles to an important thoroughfare, itself none of the widest or cleanest. She was dressed in dark petticoat and print wrapper. One of her shoes was down at the heel, and discovered a great hole in her stocking. Had her black hair been brushed and displayed, it would have revealed a thready glitter of grey, but all that was now visible of it was only two or three untidy tresses that dropped from under a cap of black net and green ribbons, which looked as if she had slept in it. Her face must have been handsome when it was young and fresh; but was now beginning to look tattooed, though whether the colour was from without or from within, it would have been hard to determine. Her black eyes looked resolute, almost fierce, above her straight, well-formed nose. Yet evidently circumstance clave fast to her. She had never risen above it, and was now plainly subjected to it.

Sir Gibbie

Il était une fois, un roi et une reine qui avaient toutes les peines du monde à avoir un enfant. Puis un jour, l'heureux événement tant espéré arriva. Mais leur bonheur leur fit oublier leur peuple… Le roi et la reine omirent d'inviter les habitants du royaume à la grande fête organisée, et, fâcheux oubli, la sœur même du roi, femme étrange, peut-être même un tantinet sorcière. Le jour du baptême, elle jette un sort à la jeune princesse qui se voit retirée toute sensation de gravité. La voilà qui en plus de flotter dans les airs est incapable de prendre une situation au sérieux… Un livre moins léger qu'il n'y paraît sur le passage de l'enfance à l'âge adulte. Paru en 1864, ce conte est un immense classique dans le monde anglo-saxon.George MacDonald (1824-1905) est un écrivain et pasteur calviniste britannique. Il devient le mentor de Lewis Carroll et lui suggère la publication d'Alice au pays des merveilles. Il est notamment admiré par J. R. R. Tolkien et C. S. Lewis, qui le considéraient comme son «maître».

The Light Princess

Curdie was the son of Peter the miner. He lived with his father and mother in a cottage built on a mountain, and he worked with his father inside the mountain.

A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowing so much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yet more afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to see how beautiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them-and what people hate they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at them with admiration, perhaps we do not feel quite awe enough of them. To me they are beautiful terrors.

The Princess and Curdie

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The Gifts of the Child Christ

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Christmas

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King Cole

A Song for Christmas

The Christmas Stories and Poetry by George MacDonald - The Gifts of the Child Christ, A Christmas Carol, A Christmas Prayer, Christmas Meditation and others

I awoke one morning with the usual perplexity of mind which accompanies the return of consciousness. As I lay and looked through the eastern window of my room, a faint streak of peach-colour, dividing a cloud that just rose above the low swell of the horizon, announced the approach of the sun. As my thoughts, which a deep and apparently dreamless sleep had dissolved, began again to assume crystalline forms, the strange events of the foregoing night presented themselves anew to my wondering consciousness. The day before had been my one-and-twentieth birthday. Among other ceremonies investing me with my legal rights, the keys of an old secretary, in which my father had kept his private papers, had been delivered up to me.

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women

This ebook compiles George MacDonald's complete novels. 

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George MacDonald: The Complete Novels

Nel giorno del suo battesimo, la principessa di Lagobel viene colpita da una maledizione: una strega vendicativa, che per dimenticanza non era stata invitata, la priva della gravità fisica e mentale. Da quel momento la bambina tenderà a volare via al primo soffio di vento e non potrà più piangere. Il re e la regina, preoccupati, cercheranno una soluzione per far tornare la figlia con i piedi per terra, ma invano: neppure con il passare degli anni la principessa sarà capace di provare empatia, di frenare la sua strana risata, di comprendere il lato serio della vita. Cosa riuscirà a spezzare l'incantesimo e far sì che la principessa senta finalmente il peso del mondo? "La principessa leggera", pubblicata per la prima volta nel 1864, è una delle fiabe più celebri dello scrittore scozzese George MacDonald. Un racconto senza tempo, ricco di simboli e significati, che insegna la forza del sacrificio, della compassione e del vero amore.

La Princesse et le Goblin

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