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(plot summary)[edit]

Mightn't we have a plot summary of, you know, the actual novel? john k (talk) 23:19, 13 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

...3 years later and still no plot summary? I remember seeing the movie a long time ago, but I doubt my memory's intact enough to write the summary. 173.180.89.129 (talk) 04:29, 19 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Christian fantasy?[edit]

Is this a Christian fantasy in some important respects? If so, how.
Our biography George MacDonald vaguely covers the influence of MacDonald on C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton (among others), [two Christian fantasy writers] whose acknowledgments [of influence by MacDonald] it features in the lead. It isn't clear whether his fantasy and Christian theology were important separately. --P64 (talk) 23:09, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Today I augmented that in [brackets]. I don't yet know anything substantial about this work in relation to Christianity.

I do know that it was first published as a serial in Good Words for the Young (now added to the article), a monthly magazine with content "suitable for reading on the Sabbath", containing (from the publisher evidently) ‘such literature as will not ignobly interest nor frivolously amuse, but convey the wisest instruction in the pleasantest manner’ (source: "Introduction: Good Words for the Young and Alexander Strahan" at The Victorian Web). --P64 (talk) 21:01, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Publication and illustration history[edit]

We should cover some publication history and some illustration history. Suggested priority: editions with new colour illustrations. We feature one of those in the infobox cover image (1911, publ Blackie, illus unknown); one in other images (1920, illus Jessie Willcox Smith). And in today footnote concerning that 1911 Blackie ed., I cite one more (1907, publ Lippincott, illus Maria L. Kirk). --P64 (talk) 20:48, 11 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Tolkien's Goblins?[edit]

"J. R. R. Tolkien's depictions of goblins within Tolkien's legendarium was heavily influenced by the goblins within The Princess and the Goblin. Tolkien 2003, pp. 108." I can't seem to locate this source, and have found a lot of evidence to the contrary in my search. 4.53.41.196 (talk) 00:06, 21 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]