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The Light Princess, and Other Fairy Tales

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"George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. The Complete Fairy Tales brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination." The subjects are those of traditional fantasy: fairies good and wicked, and children journeying into unsettling dreamworlds or undertaking life-risking labors.

But though they allude to familiar tales such as "Sleeping Beauty" and "Jack the Giant-Killer," MacDonald's stories are profoundly experimental and subversive. By questioning the concept that a childhood associated with purity, innocence, and fairy-tale "wonder" ought to be segregated from adult skepticism and disbelief, they invite adult readers to adopt the same elasticity and open-mindedness that come so naturally to a child.

Enlisting paradox, play, and nonsense much like Lewis Carroll's Alice books, these fictions challenge us to question and rethink our assumptions, and offer an elusive yet meaningful alternative order to the dubious certitudes of everyday life."--BOOK JACKET.

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Franklin Classics
Pages
326

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Cover of: The Light Princess, and Other Fairy Tales
The Light Princess, and Other Fairy Tales
Oct 14, 2018, Franklin Classics
hardcover
Cover of: Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories
Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories
2008, Wilder Publications, Incorporated, Wilder Publications
in English
Cover of: The Complete Fairy Tales of George MacDonald
The Complete Fairy Tales of George MacDonald
December 1987, Pendulum Press
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Cover of: The light princess, and other fairy tales
The light princess, and other fairy tales
1893, G. P. Putnam's sons
in English

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hardcover
Number of pages
326

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OL32448190M
ISBN 10
0342950673
ISBN 13
9780342950676

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