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The Light Princess : Paperback : Square Fish : 9780374444587 : 0374444587 : 01 Aug 1984 : Occasionally reprinted with this same ISBN but with slightly differing bibliographical details.Read More

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  • Amazon Review

    The fact that George MacDonald--a scholar as well as a preacher and writer--once read this fairy tale to his students instead of giving them a lecture says volumes about the man and his beliefs. It also says much about his faith in the power of stories. The Light Princess is a simple enough tale, clearly written for children--a princess at her christening is cursed by a wicked witch with lightness (she floats blissfully about the castle all day long, and gets into all sorts of adventures, as one can easily imagine)--yet it holds a powerful spiritual truth. Gravity, weight, sorrow, suffering--all of this the princess misses, but with all of these she misses love, for what is love without weight, without body? What is love without falling? She discovers this truth, of course, only at the last minute when a faithful prince loves her enough to die for her.

    Sometimes it's not a ponderous lecture--or sermon--that we need in order to experience what incarnation is about. --Doug Thorpe.

  • Product Description

    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.

  • 0374444587
  • 9780374444587
  • George MacDonald
  • 1 August 1984
  • Farrar Straus Giroux
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 110
  • Reissue
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