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| Princess and Curdie, The |
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The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald The Mountain Curdie was the son of Peter the miner. He lived with his father and mother in a cottage built on a mountain, and he worked with his father inside the mountain. A mountain is a strange and awful thing. In old times, without knowing so much of their strangeness and awfulness as we do, people were yet more afraid of mountains. But then somehow they had not come to see how beautiful they are as well as awful, and they hated them - and what people hate they must fear. Now that we have learned to look at them with admiration, perhaps we do not feel quite awe enough of them. To me they are beautiful terrors. I will try to tell you what they are. They are portions of the heart of the earth that have escaped from the dungeon down below, and rushed |
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| Fiction |
| Children |
| Fairy tales |
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Reviewer: squirrel99 - 3/18/2008 16:53Subject: The Princess and Curdie An absolutly wonderful story. Be sure and listen to part one − "The Princess and the Goblin". Lizzie Driver is the perfect voice for these two novels. |
Reviewer: skeleczar - 5/27/2008 4:38Subject: oh my god... What the H. is with putting the ridiculous inflections in completely random places CONSTANTLY? It's completely ruined the story. I honestly can't even listen to it. It drives me absolutely insane. I hope to god this woman doesn't go around speaking like that all the time because eventually somebody will rip the poor girl's throat out in a fit of rage. She has a beautiful voice, but Christ, is that ever obnoxious. |
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