The Princess and the Goblin - formato ePub

Diamante vive en el Londres victoriano junto a su familia en condiciones muy precarias. Un día, decide tapar los agujeros de la pared que hay detrás de su cama con heno para evitar que entre aire frío....

«MacDonald consigue un diálogo eficacísimo, algunas opor­tunas gotas de humor y una evidente comprensión del alma infantil. Es muy probable que sus hijos, sin saberlo, le enseñaran tanto como él a ellos»....

George MacDonald's 'The Hope of the Gospel: Religious Reflections' is a profound exploration of faith, salvation, and eternal hope through a series of religious reflections. MacDonald's poetic and allegorical...

Orphaned as a child, Annie's special friendship with Alec is a source of strength and security which sees them both through many difficulties in their nineteenth-century Scotland.

Beautiful story about the life of Robert Falconer. The story opens as Robert is a young boy living with his grandmother and tells of Robert's struggles to find God. Some of the Christian values that are...

George MacDonald was a Scottish poet, writer and Minister of the nineteenth century. He is known for his fantastic stories. In this book, MacDonald describes the miracles through his faith in God. All...

George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. Though no longer a household name, his works (particularly his fairy tales and fantasy novels) have inspired deep admiration...

A work of faith and hope, repentance and redemption, this novel, set in Marshmallows, a rural location in Victorian England, is the story of a young vicar, Harry Walton, beginning work in his first parish....

David Elginbrod is an 1863 novel by George MacDonald. It is MacDonald's first realistic novel.A novel of Scottish country life, in the dialect of Aberdeen.A story of humble life, centering in two saintly...

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction. A young Scottish boy relates his adventures growing up with his three brothers in a small country town in northern Scotland where their father is clergyman.

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. The story centres on the character Anodos and takes its inspiration from German...

The fairy Peaseblossom and the goblin Toadstool depart for a strange mission: to find the smile, the funny side of life subjects of fairyland, too serious and polite. To reach their goal the protagonists...

The Princess and the Goblin is an enduring children's fantasy novel by George MacDonald, published in 1872. Anne Thaxter Eaton wrote that the book and its sequel, The Princess and Curdie "quietly suggest...

Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men is a fantasy novel written by George MacDonald, first published in London in 1858. The story centres on the character Anodos and takes its inspiration from German...

The Light Princess is a Scottish fairy tale by George MacDonald. It was published in 1864. Drawing on inspiration from Sleeping Beauty, it tells the story of a princess afflicted by a constant weightlessness,...

“We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What is that, grandmother?' To understand other people.' Yes, grandmother. I must...

TThere is something sinister about Drumdalloch Woods in the Black Isle near Inverness. It is a place of tangled growth and shadowy darkness, and it has business opportunists, biological scientists and...

Bologna, 1575.A talented seamstressA powerful merchantA fierce battle of willsElena Morandi has gained a fragile foothold in the workshop of a master tailor, despite the profession being officially barred...

When gods war...Death is everywhere, Hopelessness. Despair. Dark Days.Fate has chosen her champions, and no one will expect what two children can do against the might of the Last God.They don't know it...

Summer and Ruari were the perfect childhood sweethearts. They did everything together, from book festivals to escape rooms, coastal walks to paintballing, and their love was the stuff of fairy tales....

Ette Durand's plans for the summer of 1964 take a surprising turn when Olympic swimming hopeful Dieter Norden comes to work at her parents' inn. Dieter draws crowds to him, but his relationship with Ette...

It was Fern Honeycutt's eyes that gave her away. Not witch. All demon.Her coven saw her as an abomination, handing her over to pure evil.She escaped, but a lone female is an easy target. When breeder...

April, 1941. At the former Whitechapel Road Underground station, repurposed as an air raid shelter since the onset of the Blitz, the body of a woman has been discovered, stabbed and eviscerated. With...

'Grady's style is loose, colorful, challenging and fun. I sometimes thought of Orwell's novel 1984, sometimes of the Dylan song 'Desolation Row'' Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post'Grady is a master...

Lights, camera... action?Ainsley Beckett might be television's sweetheart, star of a dozen romantic movies and known the world over for her sweet-as-pie schoolmarm on hit historical TV show As The Heart...

When a blizzard strands Colby halfway up a mountain, the timing could hardly be worse. He's supposed to spend Christmas with his family—not trapped in a cabin with his best friend, snowed in without electricity...

Truth makes traitors out of even the most dutiful.Zanteera Island has a secret: it has two prisons. Vana, the one the world knows and fears, and an unnamed compound lined with comforts. Serving her National...

We know the truths men have forgotten… ‘Visceral, twisting, propulsive – Black Wood Women begs to be devoured’ Stacey Halls 'Grim and glorious' Daily Mail 'Visceral and unswerving’...

A gripping crime thriller for fans of Lucy Foley and Cara Hunter. 'An atmospheric whodunnit you'll devour' Woman & Home 'A gripping and atmospheric...

It's not easy being the tallest woman in Ho Chi Minh City…just ask Kimmie Pham aka 'Kimmie Coconut Tree'. The staring. The not-so-clever names. The reluctance of eligible bachelors to ask her out. She...

A poignant, heart-wrenching, heart-filling celebration of, and testimony to, an Australia that has changed so much in a lifetime. Yet the raw emotions, loves, tragedies, every day-ness and splendid wonder...

Every cause has an effect. If you're walking with your eyes closed you'll eventually trip or walk into something. In life we have to live with the effects caused by our decisions or the decisions others...

Whoever wins the heart of the most eligible gentleman in London will need to be an extraordinary catch indeed. London, 1813—fae and humans alike are abuzz whenever Torquil's Tribune drops a juicy new...

Marco Serrano was raised to become the head of a crime family, but while his father prepared him to lead the Serrano family, he never knew that his son was gay. Marco has only ever entrusted two people...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up ten fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern...

Working with high schoolers is hard, but harder still when they hide body parts under their beds. Nana's responsibility in supervising magical teens who need to hide their supernatural nature for the...

What would you do if you blinked and in that split second, the world changed?That's what happened to Jenna Robinson. The world was about to end. The bombs that exploded around Jenna ensured a global apocalypse....

Sparks fly between a half-cybernetic warrior and the no-nonsense pilot…ScytheQ, once a fierce warrior now living in a sleek half-cybernetic body, has spent years battling her own emotions. She was forced...

A LUXURY ISLAND RETREAT. A SERIAL KILLER ON THE PROWL. A RACE AGAINST DEATH. In a remote island hotel off the wild Oregon Coast, seven strangers gather for a writers' retreat. Among them is Asha Kade,...

An urban fantasy in three parts  featuring very unique triplets.The Grae Sisters is a three book collection of the following previously release titles. • Warden and the Assassin ~ I'm the sister you don't...

Jackson Kane is an unassuming figure as he pushes his mop across the scuffed floors of Eastbrook High School. A former military man, his sturdy frame and calloused hands hint at a life of discipline and...

A cozy fantasy tale of friendship, work, and going out into the world. Oh, and snow cones! When the Ice Elf Elbriarien Itamar—or just El, for short—fails to get her Mage Mark after her apprenticeship,...

A Christmas wedding at Edelweiss Inn may sound like the romantic ending of a fairy tale; but for Sandra and her lifelong friends it becomes a sequence of uncomfortable and often hilarious incidents which...

EJ inherited a royal treasure…but who will wear the crown?My specialty is guest lists and cocktails, not casting spells and hawking houseplants–but when I became heir to faery portal along with a plant...

Chris was a young man full of life, ready to seize every moment. But one fateful night at a party by the river, everything changed. When the enigmatic Angie is found dead the next morning, Chris becomes...

From Britney King, the bestselling author of HER and The Social Affair, comes a dark psychological thriller that will make you question the boundaries of trust and the depths of deception.They say love...