There was once a little princess whose father was king over a great country full of mountains and valleys. These mountains were full of hollow places underneath; huge caverns, and winding ways, some with water running through them, and some shining with all colors of the rainbow when a light was taken in. Now in these subterranean caverns lived a strange race of beings, called by some gnomes, by some kobolds, by some goblins. They were not ordinarily ugly, but either absolutely hideous, or ludicrously grotesque both in face and form. It will become pretty evident why the little princess had never seen the sky at night. They were much too afraid of the goblins to let her out of the house then, even in company with ever so many attendants; and they had good reason, as we shall see by-and-by.

• THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN
• GEORGE MACDONALD
• CONTENTS
  • CHAPTER 1 Why the Princess Has a Story About Her
  • CHAPTER 2 The Princess Loses Herself
  • CHAPTER 3 The Princess and—We Shall See Who
  • CHAPTER 4 What the Nurse Thought of It
  • CHAPTER 5 The Princess Lets Well Alone
  • CHAPTER 6 The Little Miner
  • CHAPTER 7 The Mines
  • CHAPTER 8 The Goblins
  • CHAPTER 9 The Hall of the Goblin Palace
  • CHAPTER 10 The Princess's King-Papa
  • CHAPTER 11 The Old Lady's Bedroom
  • CHAPTER 12 A Short Chapter About Curdie
  • CHAPTER 13 The Cobs' Creatures
  • CHAPTER 14 That Night Week
  • CHAPTER 15 Woven and Then Spun
  • CHAPTER 16 The Ring
  • CHAPTER 17 Springtime
  • CHAPTER 18 Curdie's Clue
  • CHAPTER 19 Goblin Counsels
  • CHAPTER 20 Irene's Clue
  • CHAPTER 21 The Escape
  • CHAPTER 22 The Old Lady and Curdie
  • CHAPTER 23 Curdie and His Mother
  • CHAPTER 24 Irene Behaves Like a Princess
  • CHAPTER 25 Curdie Comes to Grief
  • CHAPTER 26 The Goblin-Miners
  • CHAPTER 27 The Goblins in the King's House
  • CHAPTER 28 Curdie's Guide
  • CHAPTER 29 Masonwork
  • CHAPTER 30 The King and the Kiss
  • CHAPTER 31 The Subterranean Waters
  • CHAPTER 32 The Last Chapter
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