George MacDonald

The Princess and Curdie

First published
1882
Length
56,000 words, about 4 hours' reading

Begin reading

Curdie, sent by the old princess on a quest, comes to the corrupt court of Gwyntystorm.

Contents

  1. Chapter 1. The Mountain
  2. Chapter 2. The White Pigeon
  3. Chapter 3. The Mistress of the Silver Moon
  4. Chapter 4. Curdie's Father and Mother
  5. Chapter 5. The Miners
  6. Chapter 6. The Emerald
  7. Chapter 7. What Is in a Name?
  8. Chapter 8. Curdie's Mission
  9. Chapter 9. Hands
  10. Chapter 10. The Heath
  11. Chapter 11. Lina
  12. Chapter 12. More Creatures
  13. Chapter 13. The Baker's Wife
  14. Chapter 14. The Dogs of Gwyntystorm
  15. Chapter 15. Derba and Barbara
  16. Chapter 16. The Mattock
  17. Chapter 17. The Wine Cellar
  18. Chapter 18. The King's Kitchen
  19. Chapter 19. The King's Chamber
  20. Chapter 20. Counterplotting
  21. Chapter 21. The Loaf
  22. Chapter 22. The Lord Chamberlain
  23. Chapter 23. Dr Kelman
  24. Chapter 24. The Prophecy
  25. Chapter 25. The Avengers
  26. Chapter 26. The Vengeance
  27. Chapter 27. More Vengeance
  28. Chapter 28. The Preacher
  29. Chapter 29. Barbara
  30. Chapter 30. Peter
  31. Chapter 31. The Sacrifice
  32. Chapter 32. The King's Army
  33. Chapter 33. The Battle
  34. Chapter 34. Judgement
  35. Chapter 35

About this digital edition

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

The text is Project Gutenberg’s transcription (ebook #709), 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.

James Allen’s eleven illustrations come from a scan of the first American edition (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1883) at the Internet Archive (princesscurdie00macdiala), with the lines printed under them as their captions.