AClassicChildren'sFantasyBookthatInspiredC.S.LewisandJ.R.R.Tolkien!Publishedin1872,？ThePrincessandtheGoblin？isoneofthefirstbooksinthemodernfantasygenre.Thisbookhadtremendousandveryvisibleinfluenceonallthe(nowmuchmorefamous)authorsthatcameafterit.It’sreallyacharmingfairytaleforchildrenaboutaprincess,aminerandhundredsofgoblins—notjustone.Eight-year-oldPrincessIrenelivesalonelylifeinacastleinawild,desolate,mountainouskingdom,withonlyhernursemaid,Lootie,forcompany.Herfather,theking,isnormallyabsent,andhermotherisdead.Unknowntoher,thenearbyminesareinhabitedbyaraceofgoblins,longbanishedfromthekingdomandnowanxioustotakerevengeontheirhumanneighbors…Thisbookcameasapleasantdiversionfrom“weightier”booksandyetnotfrom“weightier”themes.Andperhapsthatisthevalueforadultsofreadingastorysupposedlyfor“children”.
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 SPRING-TIME
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
