About this item
Highlights
- The Light Princess--the princess who "lost her gravity"--has been essential fiction for several generations of children.
- 8-12 Years
- 7.2" x 4.8" Paperback
- 128 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Classics
- Series Name: Sunburst Book
Description
About the Book
Occasionally reprinted with this same ISBN but with slightly differing bibliographical details.Book Synopsis
The Light Princess--the princess who "lost her gravity"--has been essential fiction for several generations of children. This new edition is a companion volume (same page size, similar design) to our edition of The Golden Key, of which Publishers' Weekly said: "Maurice Sendak lights the way through MacDonald's Kingdom with the most mystical, the most poetic pictures of his distinguished career." Now Sendak has made the pictures The Light Princess always deserved to have.
This is the only separate edition available that preserves the authentic text; it is neither cut nor edited nor "improved" in any way.
From the Back Cover
This newly illustrated set of four paperbacks holds the complete fantasy stories (except for several longer stories readily available elsewhere) of George MacDonald.The Light PrincessThe Giant's HeartThe CarasoynPort in a StormPapa's Story (A Scot's Christmas Story)Review Quotes
"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
About the Author
George Macdonald is the author of At the Back of the North Wind.