George MacDonald

The Light Princess and Other Fairy Stories

First published
1867 (in Dealings with the Fairies; The Light Princess first in Adela Cathcart, 1864)
Length
33,000 words, about 2 hours' reading

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Three fairy tales: The Light Princess, The Giant’s Heart and The Golden Key.

Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. The Light Princess
    1. I. What! No Children?
    2. II. Won't I, Just?
    3. III. She Can't be Ours
    4. IV. Where is She?
    5. V. What is to be Done?
    6. VI. She Laughs Too Much
    7. VII. Try Metaphysics
    8. VIII. Try a Drop of Water
    9. IX. Put Me in Again
    10. X. Look at the Moon
    11. XI. Hiss!
    12. XII. Where is the Prince?
    13. XIII. Here I Am
    14. XIV. This is Very Kind of You
    15. XV. Look at the Rain!
  3. The Giant's Heart
  4. The Golden Key

About this digital edition

How the text was made, and the printer's errors corrected

The text is Project Gutenberg’s transcription (ebook #18811), from the public-domain printed edition, made by volunteers.

For this site it was converted to Markdown: Project Gutenberg’s header and licence, the printed page numbers, and the printed table of contents were removed, and the headings were regularised so the book divides into chapters. The words of the text are as Project Gutenberg gives them.

Arthur Hughes’s illustrations come from a scan at the Internet Archive (dealingswithfair00macd_0) of Dealings with the Fairies (1867), the collection of these stories for which he drew them.