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The Princess and Curdie

by George MacDonald

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: FictionJuvenile
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"The Princess and Curdie" by George MacDonald is a children's fantasy novel published in 1883. In this sequel to "The Princess and the Goblin," young miner Curdie receives magical powers and a monstrous companion from Princess Irene's mysterious grandmother. He must journey to the royal palace to save the poisoned king from corrupt ministers plotting to seize the kingdom. With danger lurking in every corner and few allies to trust, Curdie races against time to protect both the king and Princess Irene from a deadly conspiracy. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Legendary beings and transformations, Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends, and Ritual magic and grimoires.

  • Ritual magic and grimoires

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary-historical matched “Magic”. Retained metadata contains “Magic” in the subject metadata.

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  • Legendary beings and transformations

    Controlled discovery queries from openlibrary and openlibrary-historical matched “Fairies”.

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  • Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

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

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    • “Folklore”· in subject

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Editions

Open Library reports 487 editions; 3 cataloged here.

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1908J.B. LippincottEnglish—Public

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2011-07-04Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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1996-11-01Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Open Library reports 487 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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