Cross Purposes and Shadows - Softcover
The fairy Peaseblossom and the goblin Toadstool set off on the oddest mission: to lure a girl and a boy to Færy, to bring before the Queen -- for her subjects in Fairyland are too well-behaved to be amusing.
Can they find the right dreamers? Then Peaseblossom encounters Alice, who wishes she could watch a setting sun at all times -- while Toadstool runs into the nearly penniless Richard, who wants a buy a new umbrella for his mother. Perfect!
Yet nothing can go as planned . . . and soon Alice and Richard find themselves alone and lost in a strange woods, with no help but the guidance of the strange creatures they encounter along the way.
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About the Author:
George MacDonald (1824 - 1905) was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many notable authors. C. S. Lewis wrote that he regarded MacDonald as his "master": "Picking up a copy of Phantastes one day at a train-station bookstall, I began to read. A few hours later," said Lewis, "I knew that I had crossed a great frontier." G. K. Chesterton cited The Princess and the Goblin as a book that had "made a difference to my whole existence".
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- PublisherAegypan
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 1603125345
- ISBN 13 9781603125345
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages188
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