The Princess and the Goblin

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Princess and Goblin is a children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald. It was published in 1872 by Strahan & amp; Together.

Anne Thaxter Eaton writes in The Children's Critical Literary History Princess and Goblin and her sequel "secretly suggests in every idea of ​​courage and honor incidents." Jeffrey Holdaway, in the New Zealand Art Monthly, said the two books began as "fairy tales but gradually became alien", and that they contain a layer of symbolism similar to Lewis Carroll's work.

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Summary

Irene's eight-year-old daughter lives a lonely life in a castle in a wild, desolate, lonely kingdom, with only her nurse, Lootie, to be accompanied. His father, the king, was usually absent, and his mother had died. Unknown to him, the nearest mines are inhabited by goblin races, long thrown out of the kingdom and now want to take revenge on their human neighbors. On a rainy day, the princess explores the castle and discovers a mysterious beautiful woman, who identifies herself as the namesake of Irene and grandmother's great-grandmother. The next day, Princess Irene persuades her nanny to take her out. After dark they were chased by goblins and rescued by the young miners, Curdie, who befriended Irene. While working with other miners, Curdie overhears the goblins talking, and their conversation reveals to Curdie the secret weakness of goblin anatomy: they have very soft and vulnerable legs. Curdie slipped into the Great Hall of the goblin's palace to eavesdrop on their rally, and heard that goblins intended to overrun a mine if other parts of their plan failed. He then delivered this news to his father. In the palace, Princess Irene injures her hand, which her great-grandmother healed. A week later, Irene would meet her great-grandmother again, but was frightened by a long-legged cat and fled to the top of the mountain; where the light from his great-grandmother's tower leads his home, where his great-grandmother gives Irene a ring attached to the invisible thread except for herself, which then connects her constantly to the house.

When Curdie explored the goblin domain, he was discovered by the goblins and stamped on their feet with great success; but when she tried to step on the Queen's feet, she was not injured because of her rock shoes. The goblins imprisoned Curdie, thinking he would die of starvation; But Irene's magic thread led her to save her, and Curdie stole one of the goblin queen's rock shoes. Irene invites Curdie to meet her great-grandfather and be introduced; but he can only be seen by Irene. Curdie later learned that the goblins dug a tunnel in the mine to the king's palace, where they planned to kidnap Princess and marry him to the goblin prince Harelip. Curdie warned the palace guard about this, but was jailed instead and contracted a fever through a wound in his leg, until Irene's great-grandmother healed his wound. Meanwhile, the goblins broke through the palace floor and came to kidnap the princess; but Curdie escaped from the prison and stamp rooms at the foot of the goblin. After the goblin retreat, Irene is believed to be a prisoner; but Curdie followed the magic thread to his shelter in his own home, and returned it to the king. As the goblins overrun the mines, water enters the palace, and Curdie warns others; but the goblins are drowning. The king asked him to serve as a bodyguard; but Curdie refuses, saying she can not leave her mother and father, and instead receives a new red skirt for her mother, as a gift.

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Movie adaptation

In the 1960s, the novel was adapted in animated form by Jay Ward for the Fractured Fairy Tales series. This version involves an innocent goblin race that is forced to live underground. The goblin king fell in love with a princess, but a prince saved him by reciting poetry because the goblins hated him.

A full-length animated adaptation of the book, directed by JÃÆ'³zsef GÃÆ' Â © mes, was released in 1992 in the United Kingdom, and in June 1994 in the United States. This joint production of Hungary/Wales/Japan, made in PannÃÆ'³niaFilm Budapest, NHK Japan, and S4C and Siriol Productions in the United Kingdom, starring Joss Ackland, Claire Bloom, William Hootkins and Rik Mayall. The film producer, Robin Lyons, also wrote the screenplay and voiced the Goblin King. However, it was not commercially or critically accepted for the US release of the Hemdale Film Corporation in the summer of 1994, reported to be just $ 1.8 million domestically and received mainly negative reviews (compared to the highly successful Disney The Lion King released in the same month in the United States).

The title of this film is "De Prinses van het Zonnevolk" in Dutch (English: Princess Sun-people), "Prinsessan og durtarnir" in Iceland (The Princess and the Trolls), and "La princesse et la forÃÆ'ªt magique" (Sang daughter and magical forest) in French.

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More adaptations

• Princess and Goblins is also a poem by Sylvia Plath (1932-1963).
• Shirley Temple plays Princess Irene in a production in an episode of her television show. Although his plot follows the basic line of Macdonald's story, he scrubs the dark elements and is played primarily as a comedy. Irene and Curdie are described as young adults rather than children (with the guidance of developing romance), and goblins are forgiven for their evil deeds and reforms.
• It is a book in the collection of "100 Classic Books" for the Nintendo DS.
• Twyla Tharp uses stories in a long ballet of the same title. It was the first to combine children and commissioned jointly by Ballet Atlanta and Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 2012.

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Legacy

The sequel to this book is The Princess and Curdie .

• J. The depiction of goblin R. R. Tolkien in Tolkien's legend is strongly influenced by goblins in Tolkien's Daughter and Goblin 2003, p. 108.

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References

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External links

• The public domain version of The Princess and Goblin in Project Gutenberg
• The Princess and the Goblin public domain audiobook on LibriVox
• Princess and Goblin
• List of Princess and Goblin titles on the Internet Speculative Internet Fiction
• Princess and Goblin on IMDb

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