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Chargement... The Princess and Curdie (1883)par George MacDonald
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Curdie, the young miner, is sent off to rescue the King and Princess Irene, who are under the sway of evil men bent on taking the kingdom for themselves. The people of the city ignore what is going on and descend towards beastlife. Ends with a new king [after Curdie and Irene] who mines the city for its gold and jewels and ends up bringing about its destruction. A sad ending. One of my favorite books back in elementary school. Maybe 3.5 stars. Not very much princess in it, and she's not quite as heroic as she was in [b:The Princess and the Goblin|444381|The Princess and the Goblin |George MacDonald|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174837836s/444381.jpg|3193161], but brave in a womanly sort of way. The enemies this time are corrupted people, not goblins. And the messages are a bit more heavy-handed. Still a good read if you liked the first book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Est contenu dansAt the Back of the North Wind, The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie par George MacDonald (indirect) The George McDonald Treasury: Princess and the Goblin, Princess and Curdie, Light Princess, Phantastes, Giant's Heart, At the Back of the North Wind, Golden Key, and Lilith par George MacDonald (indirect)
In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie has returned to his life as a miner and has dismissed the supernatural happenings of the past, believing them to have been a dream. When Curdie callously wounds a pigeon, his conscience leads him to Princess Irene's mystical great-great-grandmother for help. She has him plunge his hands into a pile of rose petals that burns like fire. Extraordinarily, this grants him the power to see what kind of "animal" a person is at heart.She then sends him on a quest, accompanied by a peculiar doglike creature named Lina, who was once a human. However, Curdie must resolve his own skepticism before he can use the powers granted him to defeat the evil that is threatening the future of the kingdom. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The Princess and the Goblin is very much a children's book. The story of The Princess and Curdie is still often child-like, but is slightly more wordy and features some darker content (the ending, in particular, is abruptly bleak). Compared to the former, which is quite explicit as a fairy tale, the fantasy here has more of a parabolic quality, and at times the theological parallels are far too heavy handed and dense to be digestible for a young reader. Older readers will likely get more out of it.
If I have a criticism, it is chiefly of the finale and the unreal lack of judgement on the part of the king toward those that are practically portrayed as demonic. There is mercy and there is negligence, and I would posit that the wrist slaps made in response to repetetive treason are likely reflective of MacDonald's universalism. ( )