Skip to content
Libra Esoterica

The light princess

by George MacDonald

  • First published:
  • 20th century
  • Languages: English, French, German
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
Read free

Description

Description from Project Gutenberg (opens in a new tab)

"The Light Princess" by George MacDonald is a Scottish fairy tale published in 1864. A spiteful aunt curses a newborn princess to have no gravity, leaving her physically weightless and unable to take anything seriously. The princess floats through life without tears or grounding until she discovers joy in swimming and encounters a devoted prince. When a vengeful plot threatens to drain the lake she loves, only an ultimate sacrifice can break her curse and bring her down to earth—both literally and emotionally. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and project-gutenberg matched “Fairy tales”, “folklore”, “mythology”, and 1 additional term(s). Retained metadata contains “fairy tale” in the description, “Fairy tales” in the subject metadata, and “Tales” in the subject metadata.

    • “Fairy tales”· via Open Library
    • “folklore”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “mythology”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “tales”· via Project Gutenberg
    • “fairy tale”· in description
    • “Fairy tales”· in subject

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

Read & download

Free, public copies reported by our sources. Links open the source directly.

Not yet in passage search

Pro research answers quote indexed passages. Ask the library to index this book’s public text.

marks a direct file download. Rights vary by country; each source states its own terms.

Buy or borrow

Links to ISBN 0368285278; other editions may be cheaper. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. WorldCat shows libraries near you that hold a copy.

Editions

Open Library reports 176 editions; 1 cataloged here.

Project Gutenberg electronic edition

Project Gutenberg metadata does not identify the source print edition.

1996Project GutenbergEnglish—Public

Subjects

12 subject headings

Identifiers & provenance

How this record was assembled, and the authority identifiers it carries.

Identifiers

ISBN-13
ISBN-10
LCCN
OCLC
Open Library work
Project Gutenberg
Internet Archive

Cataloged from

Cataloging notes

  • Open Library reports 176 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL15428W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
Retrieved