num_pages: 320
description: George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of traditional good and wicked fairies, children embarking on elaborate quests, and journeys into unsettling dream worlds. Within this familiar imaginative landscape, his children's stories were profoundly experimental, questioning the association of childhood with purity and innocence, and the need to separate fairy tale wonder from adult scepticism and disbelief.
language: English
title: The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales
titlecomplete: The Light Princess and Other Fairy Tales (George Macdonald Original Works)
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Christian, Science Fiction Fantasy, Classics, Childrens, 19th Century, Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Audiobook
ratings_count: 1079
publisher: Johannesen