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书的外封都没有了，不知道是不是二手
This book contains three fairy tales written out into very long versions. It has no active table of contents, no illustrations, and there's a curious formatting error where words that ought to be italicized have instead _underscores_ on either side of them, though that's a rather minor problem and it takes nothing away from the book.
The stories are interesting and readable, and would especially good for children or for people who like their fairy tales to be really long.
The stories contained are:
The Light Princess: A princess is cursed to lose her gravity, and her parents are left to deal with a daughter who is light-headed, light-hearted and light-bodied.
The Giant's Heart: A brother and sister get lost in Giantland and end up in the house of a giant who wants to eat them. They escape, but decide to go in search of the giant's heart.
The Golden Key: When a boy finds a key at the end of the rainbow it sets him and a friend on a Quest to find a distant and magical country.
I'm not always entranced with George MacDonald. Even though I WANT to be! Some of his stuff i love, and some I find kind of...boring. But I LOVE love love his short story The Light Princess. In this "another story of the cursed princess," (which MacDonald pokes fun at), a miffed princess-who-is-a-witch curses the princess with Light-ness. The poor princess has no gravity. In various senses of the word. No physical weight, (except when she is in the water), and no seriousness. She never cries, she has no empathy or compassion. One day, a handsome prince falls in love with her. But she can't take him seriously. In an act of true love, the Prince gives up his life for the princess, knowing that she has no concept of what he has done for her. What i really love about this story is the picture of Christ and the world. Like the prince in the story, Christ willingly sacrificed all, and, for the most part, people can't take Him seriously. Like the Princess, in our fallen state, we are cursed with an inability to truly value what God offers us in His Son.
George MacDonald's fairy tales are so original, I fall in love with each one I read. Many fairy tales start to sound a like after a while, or they try so hard to be original that they lose their "aura" of faerie. But not so with MacDonald.
In this edition are three of his tales--the first about a princess who is cursed when a infant with having no gravity, the second about a greedy giant and the wisdom of neglecting your own heart, the third about a boy named Mossy and a girl who tramp through faery woods in search of The Land Where the Shadows Come From.
Each tale has a moral point--as all fairy tales must--but this point is so carefully, humbly and discretely woven among the plot that is pleasant rather than preachy. And because his plots are so original you are left guessing until the very end.
C.S. Lewis highly recommended this author for serious as well as delightful study. I can see why.
Four stars for this edition because the Table of Contents is not formatted correctly--to get to the second and third stories you have to just guess at the page number.
this book is not worth your money or time. it is not really a book. it is a cheap printing and binding of a common domain book. it feels more like a pamphlet but you would be better off printing your own book. the font feels distorted. it is too long and not wide enoigh. it is small an inappropriate for a children's book. also it contains only one story even though the title says "and other fairy stories". this is a scam.
When I was little, I loved the story of the light princess. It's a princess tale unlike any other -- the princess is eerie and unpredictable, not even entirely likable, and her actions will keep you deliciously unsure of the outcome. MacDonald writes with great humor and pathos as needed, and the chapters are short, making it a great read for younger children.
MacDonald inspired writers like CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, and Ursula LeGuin, so he's definitely worth trying out. Although he wrote these stories more than a hundred years ago, they're still highly accessible.
The other stories in this collection are also enjoyable.
I was impressed with this edition. I like the illustration on the front, which captures the main story well, and the font and arrangement of the book made it highly readable.
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