The Princess, The Goblin & Curdie

This volume is a compilation of two books by George Macdonald: The Princess & The Goblin and The Princess & Curdie. These two stories recount the adventures of the Princess Irene and Curdie, the miner’s son, as they are guided by the princess’ mysterious great great grandmother. Of all the challenges they face, the greatest is their slowness to believe in the fantastic revelations which lead them to their ultimate success: “As Curdie grew, he grew at this time faster in body than in mind—with the usual consequence, that he was getting rather stupid—one of the chief signs of which was that he believed less and less in things he had never seen.” G. K. Chesterton held The Princess & The Goblin in special esteem: In a certain rather special sense I for one can really testify to a book that has made a difference to my whole existence, which helped me to see things in a certain way from the start; a vision of things which even so real a revolution as a change of religious allegiance has substantially only crowned and confirmed.