We rely on your support to help us keep producing beautiful, free, and unrestricted editions of literature for the digital age. Will you support our efforts with a donation ? Following the events of The Princess and the Goblin , Curdie has returned to his provincial life of hard but satisfying work with his father in the king's silver mines. When an act of youthful cruelty leads him to a meeting with Princess Irene's great-great-grandmother, he's charged with a mysterious quest—one that will require strength, wit, and courage. Bestowed with a supernatural ability to aid him on his mission, Curdie and a ferocious new companion must journey to the capital where Princess Irene and her father, the king, face a grave threat to the entire kingdom. George MacDonald (died 2008) was a significant literary figure of the 20th century. Their work has endured across generations and continues to be read and studied worldwide. Fantastical literature has always allowed writers to explore human truths through the lens of the impossible and the magical. The Princess And Curdie draws on mythology, folklore, and pure invention to construct a world that illuminates our own.