The Princess and Curdie is the sequel of George MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin. Set a few years after the events of the first book, The Princess and Curdie follows Curdie as he sets out on a quest given to him by the old princess Irene. When we first meet Curdie he has grown hardened by ...
The mentor of Lewis Carroll, and revered by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien among others, the severe-looking Scottish author clearly had a knack for creating magical things. Very few authors have said that they don't write for children, "but for the child-like, whether they be of five, or fifty...