The Light Princess

A princess with no weight at all, who floats up off the earth like a stray cloud.

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About this edition

A spiteful aunt curses the newborn princess to have no gravity, and so she drifts through the air, laughing at everything, weightless in body and in heart. She cannot cry a single tear, for she has lost her gravity in every sense. Only when a devoted prince makes a great sacrifice, offering to fill the draining lake with his own body, does she learn what it can mean to be willing to sink.

George MacDonald, the Scottish poet who shaped Lewis Carroll, C. S. Lewis and Tolkien, wrote fairy tales that are also parables: strange, luminous and tender. First published in 1864, The Light Princess is the most enchanting of them all, brimming with wit, wordplay and quiet depth.

Here with it are two more of MacDonald’s best-loved tales, The Giant’s Heart and The Golden Key, bound behind an original painting.

Details

• George MacDonald (1824–1905)
• Three tales: The Light Princess (1864), The Giant’s Heart and The Golden Key
• Solocosmo Press
• The Lightbound Library
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 108 pages