The Princess and Curdie (Paperback)

Paperback. A classic story of magic, mystery, and adventure in a fairy-tale world.Princess Irenes great-great-grandmother has a testing task for Curdie. Curdie will not go alone though; she provides him with a companion, the oddest and ugliest creature Curdie has ever seen, but one who turns out to be the most loyal friend he could have hoped for. The sequel to "The Princess and the Goblin", this story begins a year after Curdie, the miner's son, saved the Princess Irene from being carried away by the goblins who lived under the earth. It looked as if the kingdom would run like clockwork once again, but the goblins were back. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.