The Princess and the Goblin

George MacDonald

⏱ 8 minFantasy classic

A little princess in a mountain house honeycombed with goblin mines is given a magic thread by her mysterious great-great-grandmother, while the brave miner-boy Curdie uncovers the goblins' plot to flood the mines and carry her off. A luminous founding fairy-tale that shaped Tolkien and Lewis.

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