The Light Princess

by George MacDonald

Overview

The princess at her christening is cursed by a wicked witch with lightness. She floats blissfully about the castle all day long and, as one can imagine, gets into all sorts of adventures. Gravity, weight, sorrow, suffering--all of this the princess misses, but with all of these she misses love, for what is love without weight, without falling?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781420980943
Publisher:	Digireads.com Publishing
Publication date:	02/01/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

George Macdonald (1824-1905) is the author best know for the classic fantasy books The Golden Key, The Light Princess, The Princess and the Goblin, and At the Back of the North Wind.

Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) was the author and illustrator of such classic children's books as Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. Widely considered one of the most innovative creators of children's literature, he received honors including the Caldecott Medal, the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, and the National Medal of Arts. Sendak was born in Brooklyn in 1928 and died in Connecticut in 2012.

Editorial Reviews

For [this] elegant edition of the Victorian story that combines seriousness with levity and farce with fantasy, the artist has created pictures that...present the ludicrous element of the story; then become poetic and romantic; and finally are climaxed by the last crowning revelation of the light princess humanized by sorrow and love.” —Starred, The Horn Book

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